Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: SECRET HISTORY Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services Simon Ball London: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020. Around £17.00 p/b Robin Ramsay In the last 30 years or so academic writing on intelligence services in this country has gone from being a non-subject to an enormous field, far too big for any one person to […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: Intelligence, Security and the Attlee Governments, 1945-51: An Uneasy Relationship? Daniel W B Lomas Manchester University Press, 2017, h/b, £75.00 In December 1945, George Orwell wrote in Tribune wondering what happened to Special Branch, MI5 and MI6 when a Labour government was in office. This was when he still thought the Attlee government […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] the Technologies of Political Control – was commissioned last year by the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament. It contains details of a network of American-controlled intelligence stations on British soil and around the world, that ‘routinely and indiscriminately’ monitor countless phone, fax and e-mail messages. It states: ‘Within Europe all e-mail telephone […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] group that we could prevent actions because of the credibility of our source.’ This is reminiscent of the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the captain or the vice captain, […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are also covered, with almost ninety members of the intelligence community listed. Many of these had other occupations John Henry Bevan (‘intelligence officer and stockbroker’), Maurice James Buckmaster (‘intelligence officer and businessman’), Tomas Joseph Harris […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] one I can’t do it. The world is weird and the US state is capable of great evil but the people at the top of its military- intelligence complex are not stupid enough or bold enough to have sanctioned something like this. The MIHOP ‘sceptics’ presented in this book want us to believe that […]