My encounter with George K. Young and Tory Action, 1979-1988

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

In 1978 I read a report of a speech on subversion by a Mr G. K. Young (‘GKY’) a former ‘deputy director’ of MI6. It said that he was a banker. I had been a student at LSE 1972-1975, my tutor was an expert on the Soviet Bloc and I had studied Soviet politics. […]

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 […]

The Thimble Riggers: The Dublin Arms Trials of 1970

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)

[…] the Catholics in the North in 1970 when there appeared to be a serious threat of pogroms against them. The gunrunning scheme was exposed – possibly by MI6 – and when the politicians involved got cold feet, the Irish state tried make Kelly the sacrificial lamb. He resisted and triumphed in court. This is […]

Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)

[…] the head of his secret foreign intelligence service was in the employ of the enemy. It is well-known that this nightmare came near enough to reality for MI6, Britain’s CIA, at the beginning of the Cold War. H. A. R. ‘Kim’ Philby, that perfect spy, was quite possibly within a few months of becoming […]

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] (Operation Gold) 1956 F.O. 1957 1st Sec.Bonn 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut – Chief of Station 1968 1st Sec. F.C.O. 1972 Retired (wrote official – secret – history of MI6) MCNAUGHT, Eustace Arthur Born 18/2/22 1942-47   H.M.forces 1948 Control Commission, Germany 1953 F.O. 1956 2nd Sec. Tripoli 1959 F.O. 1962 1st.Sec. Beirut 1967 F.O. 1968 […]

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 […]

The Perfect English Spy

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, […]

A Who’s Who of Appeasers, 1939-41

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 […]

The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] of names from the British Right, from the context obviously there as some kind of allies. They are: The Society for Individual Freedom, G.K.Young (SIF member, ex MI6, Unison Committee for Action, Monday Club), Gerald Howarth (now a Tory MP: at the time in SIF), Francis Bennion (SIF, the brains behind the attempt to […]

Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] and dining favoured journalists and editors‘ (emphasis added). Tomlinson later alleged that Dominic Lawson, editor of the Sunday Telegraph, and former editor of the Spectator, was an MI6 agent. This was run through the House of Commons by Brian Sedgemore MP. Cue many hundreds of column inches of newsprint. At the end of which […]

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