Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] extension of SIS, this appointment added some little credence to the notion that John Smith, like his Glasgow University contemporary Baroness ‘Meta’ Ramsay, had been recruited by MI6 while a student. It might also help make intelligible Smith’s role on the Bilderberg steering group. What is The Guardian? An interesting piece on The Guardian […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] p. 127. 1 Jewish Chronicle, London, 15 January 2016: 2 Tamara Deutscher, preface to the Non-Jewish Jew And Other Essays, (London: Verso, 2017). 3 assistant chief of MI6 had released a large amount of hard currency to persuade Tancred Borenius to take a flight to neutral Portugal. From there he took a dangerous journey […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] that period, a permanent network of stable private companies was established – ready to fight wars for profit with the covert encouragement of the Foreign Office and MI6. As Miller puts it, by the 1980s these companies ‘were part of a booming industry, fuelled by free market Thatcherism and relentless privatisation, and supercharged by […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] as Foreign Secretary Johnson switching Carrie Symonds, now his wife, from Conservative Party HQ employment to become his FCO special adviser. His social arrangements – seeing ex- MI6 chief Sir John Scarlett dining with former US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff – point to a world most of us rarely glimpse but whose actions […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] reports of MI5 using this kind of tactic to try and recruit Muslims in the UK. See or . 2 2 recruited into an illegal joint MI5/ MI6 operation against Asil Nadir. A TurkishCypriot businessman, Nadir had built up a large business empire, Polly Peck International, in the UK before being charged with fraud. […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] discussion in Keegan’s book. It’s only in a real crisis that we learn what is truly important. P.S. A light is shown on the hapless nature of MI6 who, following the Black Wednesday events of 1992, were looking for explanations for the sudden loss of confidence in sterling. Keegan was invited to the Pot […]