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, he … Read more
[…] Dorril’s other books, but I can safely say that MI6 will lose no sleep over this one. Lobster readers belong to the cognoscenti in their knowledge of spook filth and, whilst this is a very useful contribution to the literature – particularly for the general reader – there is nothing particularly new that has […]
The unspeakable Martin Kettle of The Guardian is a political journalist who has been pretty close to, and supportive of, New Labour since the 1990s. His article ‘The special relationship that squandered a noble cause’ (27 May 2006) opened with this: ‘The long arc of Tony Blair’s rise and decline has been punctuated by journeys … Read more
[…] information to know yet, but it is our suspicion that both groups were largely run by Catholics. Neil Elles — a barrister, later a member of the spook outfit, INTERDOC, a kind of European-wide Common Cause. INTERDOC is discussed below in the appendix. Christopher Blackett — a Scottish landowner and farmer, and, we presume […]
[…] to try and frustrate the closures. No reference is made to bringing company or country down. In the intervening twenty years Edwardes’ memory has gilded the lily. Spook think The Security Service mind is a wonderful thing. To it a potential risk is the same as an actual risk. Thus we discover that Lord […]
[…] anti-CIA, naming names etc.. The first issue of the Study Group on Intelligence Newsletter has appeared. This ‘Study Group’ is a group of British academics working in spook country, and how widely they are willing to release their newsletter is unclear. The first issue is rather good, containing a survey of British courses which […]
[…] reason to then conclude that the state has any operatives inside the local BNP. They might have – hell, let’s hope so! – but this isn’t evidence. Spook spotting in the media O’Hara believes, as I do, that the media contains journalists who run stories for Whitehall’s clandestine warriors. Our lists of such spook […]
Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more
Introduction Intelligence officers who blow the whistle get attacked by their erstwhile employers. Agee, Stockwell, Marchetti,Wallace, Holroyd, Jock Kane, Cathy Massiter – they all have variously suffered for their decision to go public. Their allegations and their characters are rubbished; operations are mounted to discredit them and disrupt their lives – and worse. Gordon Winter … Read more
Iraq – fallout continues ‘Five years on from Hutton and we still haven’t been told the truth about the war based on lies’, fulminated Peter Oborne earlier this year. (1) Also less than happy was barrister Michael Shrimpton who unsuccessfully complained to Ofcom about an interview he gave for David Kelly: the conspiracy files, (2) … Read more
