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

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] of the private company NSO and those of Unit 8200 is illustrated by a Unit 8200 cyber development called ‘Flame,’ described thus: . . . state-sponsored cyber espionage malware that circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between two and five years. Aimed to map Iran’s computer networks and monitor computers of Iranian officials, it […]

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[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]

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The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of free trade. There have also been anxieties expressed in Washington that China is using both foreign investment and its increasingly sophisticated IT and AI sectors for espionage against the West. These have recently centred on Huawei along with Chinese social media corporations such as TikTok and WeChat. The upshot has been a series […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] secretary and intelligence services were finally established on a statutory basis in the 1990s, they were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a […]

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[…] Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, . 33 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 34 11 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move from Robert Kennedy […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] University of Texas Press, 1998) and John Prados, Presidents’ Secret Wars (Chicago: Elephant, 1996), Cullather (see note 1) and Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1981). 8 See Schlesinger and Kinzer (see note 3). 17 Winter 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and […]