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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] it. From John Hope In Lobster 39 David Turner claims to have ‘solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight’, asserting that Knight was ‘working for MI6 from 1924-25 to 1931’ via a private intelligence agency used by MI6 to furnish information on communists in Britain. Alas, the matter is more complex and […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] only tasks that were in line with my own objectives.'(pp. xii, xiii) But on p. xii of the preface he tells us he ‘worked with’ the CIA, MI6 and IRD; on p. 20 he tells that briefings he had been getting from an MI6 officer secured for him the job as editor of the […]

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How to Fix an Election

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] of surprise Last, but by no means least: nobble the opposition. No messy fiddling with the votes – go straight to the voters themselves. Hats off to MI6, who proved themselves the masters of this tactic in 1924, when the UK’s first-ever Labour government was seeking to be returned to power. With the Russian […]

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Spooks UK

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] us…. Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting) – 140 Gower St., London WC1 and 14-17 Great Marlborough St., London WC1 MI6 recruitment – 3 Carlton Gardens, […]

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Historical Notes: Channel 4 SOE mystery. Venona Decrypts

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] acquitted and died in 1962 as a result of an air accident in South-East Asia. Faulks, in reporting this tale, suggested that Bodington may have been an MI6 agent before the war (he had been a journalist) and that the connection between him and Dericourt involved more than friendship. Curiously, Faulks left it there. […]

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Operation Brogue

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] appeared and then vanished again. But Irish press reports suggest that the bugging was merely one part of a complicated story which leads to a failed 1982 MI6 coup against then Prime Minister Charles Haughey. The story (Sunday News 25th March 1984) is long, complicated, and itself apparently based on press reports from the […]

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Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] Maurice Oldfield. * * * Gradually the pieces are coming together, though it will turn out to be a very large jigsaw. Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service ( MI6) set up a Northern Irish section in the Conway Hotel at Dunmurray. Headed by Frank Howard Smith with Philip Woodhead as his desk man in London, […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The essence […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] dossier on UK Press Freedom, about British Intelligence Service whistleblowers and attempts by Blair’s administration to cover up accusations of British Govt sleaze and incompetence. Includes former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson’s allegations about MI6, contained in letters to his solicitor, John Wadham of Liberty, describing a 1992 proposal to assassinate President Slobodan Milosevic of […]

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The accountability of the intelligence and security services

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] intelligence services in the context of civil liberties and their relationship with the public. For most of their existence the British Intelligence Services, namely MI5, GCHQ and MI6 were not governed by any statutory law. They were established by the use of the Royal Prerogative backed up, in the case of MI5, with an […]

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