The limits of accountability

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] going on in secret and not so secret prisons. We know thanks to the excellent research done by that elements of the British government, be they MI5, MI6 or diplomats from the FCO, have been involved. Yet we seem unable to stop it. Civic society raises its voices in anger, yet nothing changes. As […]

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Kincoragate: parapolitics

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 […]

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Iraq

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. […]

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Clippings Digest to May 31st. 1984

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 […]

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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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The View from the Bridge

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 […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] was noted that, as far as Europe was concerned, the efficiency of this service had diminished considerably. (4) The contacts in 1980 between George Bush and ex- MI6 and Circle member Nicholas Elliott are even more interesting now that Bush has made it to the top; but perhaps the most significant element in the […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] things in this. In particular there is the curious business of the Met team getting access to MI6’s data bases to research the various claims by former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson that MI6 were involved. The nominated Operation Paget officers interviewed SIS personnel or examined databases and documentation for a total of 18 working […]

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