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 […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] him — to have been a regular informant to Washington.’ (4) According to David Leigh’s sources the MI5 officer Arthur Martin told friends before his tranfer to MI6 in November 1964, ‘I did hear that —— was a spy.’ An MI5 officer from K branch confirmed to Leigh that ‘We knew that —— was […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] with the Shah. In Teheran, Musadegh was also in constant contact with the Americans about any developments. Finally the parties reached an agreement. On a yacht the MI6 station chief told me… Later the MI6 station chief in Iran told me that at the beginning the Shah did not agree to return to Teheran, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] thus ensure that the President got a mandate from Congress for the attack on Iraq. The moment of conspiracy In Britain, at the 11th hour very senior MI6 and Defence Intelligence Staff (DIS) used a human source who claimed – falsely, of course – that Iraq had been developing chemical and biological warfare capacities. […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Norfolk to clear Wallace of the ‘It’s A Knock Out’ murder. Mrs Anne Wallace met her husband Colin whilst she was assistant in Conmower intelligence office of MI6 in Belfast. She is now personal secretary to the Duke of Norfolk, who retired as Director of Military Intelligence, M.O.D. in 1967. The Duke is a […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] introduced after US threat to refuse information sharing. Observer 13th May Account of four mysterious deaths of GCHQ personnel. A rash of ‘suicides’. Sunday Times 15th April MI6 P.M. believed to have agreed to legislation that would make naming any member of MI6 a criminal offence. A statute “being drafted in Whitehall” will also […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White’s memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] birth deformities caused by depleted uranium leaking into the atmosphere. It is tragic evidence that Saddam Hussein is stockpiling the material to make his own nuclear weapons. MI6 intelligence agents estimate 316 tons of radioactive dust seeped from a factory in Al Hillah, 100 miles south of Baghdad, 12 months ago.’ When depleted uranium […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] Co Ltd (the British holding company of Royal Dutch Shell), corporate member of the Anglo-German Fellowship; founder of Samuel’s (merchant bank); trustee of National and Tate Galleries. MI6 (Secret Intelligence Service). Advocated negotiated peace, 1940. Club: Carlton, White’s, Orleans, Burlington Fine Arts, Buck’s, Bath, Beefsteak. (Stokes, Lobster 19) Beaverbrook (Lord) William Maxwell Aitken, newspaper […]