Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time the specter of espionage was never raised. It may be argued that the Special Branch came in as a matter of routine because two of those involved were in the […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] RV is not operationally useful (bad enough but also dismissing the many hits in the oper-ational, non-experimental efforts with RV). Given the low reliability of so many espionage methods and sources, one would have expected them to be delighted with 15% over chance. Obviously, the conclusions were dictated in advance of the evaluation study […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Morris Riley, writer on espionage and occasional Lobster contributor, died around 16 June 2001. I never entirely trusted Morris: he gossiped to me about things he should have kept to himself and for the most part I blanked his questions about Lobster and the people I was talking to. Under a pseudonym Morris wrote […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] actions (37 pp.) GAO/OSI-94-2, November 1993. Examines 1) the need for information privacy in computer and communications systems, such as encryption, to mitigate the threat of economic espionage; 2) the development of cryptographic standards for the protection of sensitive unclassified information, and the policies of the NSA, DoD, National Institute of Standards and Technology […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British glossy magazine devoted to ‘cover ups, espionage, covert action’ duly folded after five issues. Which was two more than I expected. There just is no general interest in these fields in this country, […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] a report for Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (see www.epic.org). Europe The European Parliament may soon ratify proposals to modify international law to deal with international communications espionage, and to set up a temporary special Committee of inquiry (opposed by UK govt) to further investigate Echelon. These proposals, known as the Echelon resolution, drafted […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] and by 1955 had reached the rank of colonel and deputy chief of Glowny Zarzad Informacji, the Polish intelligence agency. His responsibilities included counterintelligence and foreign technical espionage. In April 1958 he contacted the Americans and began passing top secret information to the West. At Christmas, 1960, fearing that his cover was blown, he […]