Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)
[…] had also worked at Farnham Castle, a government centre for intelligence briefing, from 1974-84. Before that, he was attached to the Crown Agency and also IMS, the MoD company. He later achieved a more public profile as the Chairman of Westland. 3i (a name difficult to find in indexes) was involved with many of […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] Lords on Gulf War Veterans issues. On behalf of Tim Sebastian, she privately took up the matter of Operation Black Cat with a senior minister at the MOD. She was also kind enough to do the same with our Black Dog story with Dr. John Reid, whose only response was an off-the-cuff remark about […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] visit and correspond with Michael who continues to vigorously fight his conviction. We believe he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
Wensley Clarkson Blake Publishing, London 1998, £16.99 Remember Jonathan Moyle, the ex-RAF officer, editor of Defence Helicopter World, who was found dead, hanging in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Chile in 1990? This is about him – and about his death. It is done in the most irritating manner possible, written as a […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)
[…] around the country in a Chinook helicopter. Aislinn Simpson, ‘William flies into a storm for landing at Kate’s…’, The Daily Telegraph, 21 April 2008; Andy McSmith, ‘ MoD admits it was naive to allow Prince William’s joyrides in helicopters’, The Independent, 24 April 2008. The official website contains not only transcripts of each day’s […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] Department to be purely administrative in function and would only have thought about any possible political repercussions if Legg had held a similar position at, say, the MOD or the Foreign Office. After fully investigating me, an investigation of which I was unaware at the time, the Security Service, with a little help from […]