Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department (IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given by the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence at the Northern Ireland Office. Moreover, an internal MI5 memo, dated 22 February 1990, and addressed to MI5’s Legal Adviser, Bernard Sheldon (copied to the MI5 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] once of Bletchley and later Master of St John’s College, Cambridge – asked Hastings, ‘that in peacetime the best brains of our society wasted their lives in intelligence?’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, another brainy historian seconded to intelligence work in the war, memorably compared the old lags in MI6 to a ‘colony of coots in an […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] also about my life.’ (p. 4) Snowden’s explanation for his actions is simple: the online privacy of everyone US House of Representatives (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence – HSPCI), Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Contractor Edward Snowden (U), September 15, 2016, pp. i-ii. (hereafter: HSPCI, Review) 1 The crimes […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Rabat, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi. No embassies, no consulates, no foreign service officers on the ground. Israel’s chief point contact with these wary allies was its international intelligence service, the Mossad. “Mossad is in charge of building diplomatic connections with the regimes where we don’t have a diplomatic relationship,” one former Israeli intelligence commander […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or 2 or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 15 years by conspiracy theories, many of which were obvious nonsense.9 I wonder if some smart alecs in the White House, or its allies in the US intelligence community, didn’t help to create or propagate them. Jonathan Marshall W hen Lobster began in 1983 there were only two similar publications: Intelligence and Parapolitics out […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 2 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published […]

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