Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] our collection which support the claim that Burgess worked for MI5.’ Note that careful ‘not yet’. And note also the reference is only to MI5 and not MI6. But by the same token, there is absolutely nothing inherently improbable about a British novelist having a second job in intelligence: think of Graham Greene, Frederick […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1998), former SAS Warrant Officer Ken Connor, who was involved in the creation of what later became known as ‘14 Int’, noted: ‘MI5 and MI6 had only one thing in common: a shared contempt for the RUC Special Branch, which they regarded as staffed by incompetents.’ He also reported that MI5 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] weak.’1 8 Given the diminishment in the UK’s fortunes caused by what happened after 1939 this seems a not unreasonable conclusion. After the war Klop switched to MI6, dealing frequently with Kim Philby. He worked through to his retirement in 1957 but the account of his life seems to indicate that he did little […]