Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] to assert that, excisions notwithstanding, it is ‘a comprehensive history’ and ‘a candid chronology’ which reveals ‘the grisly truth’ about still unexplained failings in operations against Soviet espionage. These supposed failings exist largely in Mr West’s imagination and are a hangover from all the tosh written in the 1980s about an undetected ‘super-mole’ at […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What little there is in the British press is almost exclusively the routine nonsense of espionage – expulsions and counter expulsions. The recent great brouhaha about Oleg Bitov rather makes the point. What did we learn? The British intelligence services have ‘safe […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] and finally, in desperation, to ‘reaching’ them. The authenticity juggernaut is causing huge problems in the most unlikely places, including British spooks. Reasons include: dilution of the espionage profile – even the McLaren Formula One team appear to be at it;(5) believing media-friendly populism to be the same as authenticity; and losing control of […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Guardian 30 April 2007, about opposition parties being alerted to an upcoming scoop. Particularly worrying is the increasing trend to target children; e.g. and however exciting, an espionage exhibition at a national London museum. The tactic is straight out of the marketing manuals. See ‘Ex-BBC and Blair aides hired’, The Independent 1 July 2006. […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] in British embassies, under what is often known as ‘light’ cover. The term serves as a reminder that it is a simple task for the local counter- espionage outfit to determine which embassy staff are genuine diplomats. Nevertheless the embassy has several advantages over locations outside: access to embassy facilities (archives, communications etc), diplomatic […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] laws and regulations against NGOs are not enough, they resort to extralegal forms of intimidation or persecution. Often these regimes justify their actions by accusations of treason, espionage, subversion, foreign interference or terrorism. These are rationalizations; the real motivation is political. This is not about defending their citizens from harm, this is about protecting […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] In a long review essay of both books in Commentary, Michael Ledeen (16) announced that: “the real spectacle has been the discrediting of any concern over Communist espionage and subversion in the United States. Indeed, the concern has been turned inside out; the real threat – according to the fashionable mythology – was a […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] part of the world, it has created a separate world.’ Unhappy with its lack of respectful representation in Hollywood movies, Turkey has put its own spin on espionage and made its most expensive movie ever – Valley of the Wolves – which follows an intelligence agent as he travels to Iraq to avenge the […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] War, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1973, or the post-revisionist work of John Lewis Gaddis. D. Cameron Watt, ‘Intelligence and the Historian: A Comment on John Gaddis’s ‘Intelligence, Espionage, and Cold War Origins’, Diplomatic History, Vol.14 No.2, Spring 1990, p.200. This is the line of critique that will be followed here in relation to the […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] clear that Sulzberger shared the paper’s intimate relations with the CIA.20 .Hayden B. Peake sent me a photocopy of the review of Splinter Factor from Intelligence and Espionage; an Analytical Bibliography by George Constantinides (Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado). This includes ‘The story is quite unreliable… one of the worst books to appear in years […]
