Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE
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Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Bletchley Park ‘ultra’ story; and the farcical events around Peter Wright’s Spycatcher. If the theme and the major incidents are familiar, much of the detail was new to me. But within this is an 80 page section in which Moran tries to persuade us that in the 1950s and 60s the British press […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: The State of Secrecy Spies and the Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in […]

Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] they could do a post-election opinion poll asking people if they were influenced by the Agency’s work; by the nature of things the work was concealed. Perhaps new techniques will be developed to track the impact of disinformation on target audiences; but those methods, too, would have to remain invisible and untraceable. There is […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] same time extending the scope and intensity of bureaucracy. After a circuitous tour he leaves us with the basis for a theory of bureaucracy. (I never k new I needed one before.) But whenever you hear that the market is superior to bureaucracy, and bureaucrats are held up to ridicule, you will be able […]

Shirley Williams

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[…] TV long before becoming an MP in 1964. Had she really ‘failed to appreciate the media interest in the latest phase’ of the setting up of a new party that would for two general elections split opposition to Margaret Thatcher’s Conservatives? Evacuated by her parents to the United States in the Second World War, […]

Secret Science: A Century of Poison Warfare and Human Experiments by Ulf Schmidt

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a US government bacteriologist working on germ warfare projects who was probably pushed to his death out of a tenth floor window of the Hotel Statler in New York in 1953. Reviewing the book led me to do some desultory research on the UK’s forays in to mind control drugs, and while I won’t […]

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