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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] CORPS 16-17 ASSISTANT MILITARY ATTACHE THE HAGUE 19-29 BELL’S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD. 29-++ PRESIDENT BELL’S ASBESTOS AND ENGINEERING LTD. BIDDLE, ROBIN 1950s ARMY SERVICE FIELD SECURITY EGYPT, GERMANY 55-59 POLITICAL OFFICER ADEN PROTECTORATE -65 HAYTER SCHOLARSHIP -80 SEC./LIBRARIAN MIDDLE EAST CENTRE CAMB. BINGHAM, MAJ. SEYMOUR 1918 ARMY 18-33 USA -33 HOLLAND DIRECTOR BRYNEEL […]

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The History of Espionage

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] with Newsday, and author of many previous books on spying, Volkman knows the subject and his text is well written. Since the author covers events from ancient Egypt to post-9/11, what we get are illustrative chapters and treatments of some well known (and some little known) incidents in the history of the subject. This […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] also used one of its other agents, formerly Iraq’s oil chief Abdulla Ismal, for undermining activities. Presently, BIS is activating a whole series of undermining activities in Egypt and Syria. Using its position in Syrian emigration circles and the closeness of the former Syrian politician Salehh Dzeddi, the BIS has during recent months alone […]

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Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to be prowest but agnostic in that regard. Nasser was happy to deal with the Soviet bloc and initially reliant on various German (some ex-Nazi) advisors as Egypt became a leading player in the non-aligned group of nations. When the US tired of Nasser’s manoeuvres (July 1956), they withdrew funding for the Aswan Dam […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] blond hair and blue eyes’ had preceded him as head of Al Mukhabarat Al A’amah. Adham had bank-rolled the former spy Anwar Sadat, the third president of Egypt who expelled thousands of Russian military advisers before his surprise attack on Israel to re-capture the Sinai Peninsula in the Yom Kippur War of 1973. As […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in world oil prices.’9 (emphasis added) Tracking the events leading up to the Arab oil embargo, Engdahl claims the October 1973 Yom Kippur war, when Syria and Egypt launched a preemptive attack on Israel, had actually been ‘secretly orchestrated by Washington and London’. Henry Kissinger, then US Secretary of State, allegedly had primary responsibility […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is at . 2 Ploch pp. 9-10. From the late-19th century until the late-20th, Britain controlled/created a vast number of African countries, nearislands, and regions, including: Botswana/Bechuanaland, Egypt, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho/Basutoland, Malawi/Nyasaland, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Somalia/Somaliland, St. Helena and Dependencies, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania/Tanganyika, Uganda, West Cameroon, Zambia/Northern Rhodesia, and Zimbabwe/Southern Rhodesia. The […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

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[PDF file]: […] to Sukarno and advance man for Krupp.90 The consequences of this CIA favour to Nasser and the Nazis were to be widespread and long term. Skorzeny left Egypt after about a year, but he left behind him about 50 former S.S. and Gestapo men, many of them recruited from Argentina and neighbouring countries by […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]