Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] result is very interesting indeed: part biography, part autobiography, part history, and part historical travelogue through the countries of Central Europe in which Elliott’s father worked for SIS and SOE before, during and after the war. Almost incidentally there are interesting snippets about SIS people and operations – but that isn’t the focus of […]

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The Valkyrie Operation

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] he would be likely to express them.”‘ In fact there is a quite an interesting account here, not only of the business of being an agent for SIS – presumably it is SIS, though other agencies are possible; and the author never quite resolves this – but also of the University of Aberystwyth, its […]

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PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] JIC (Middle East) and JIC (Far East) have disappeared.’ (24) That they have is an unnoticed national scandal. The ‘approved’ will be able to concoct whatever back-history SIS chooses. (25) Not that, according to Defence Secretary Hoon, a back-history is of any consequence. Facing a courteous, articulate predominantly Arab audience – and profoundly out […]

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Updates

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] been given a five-year exemption from the Marine Mammal Protection Act. (‘Navy Cleared To Use a Sonar System Despite Fears for Whales’ at < www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1010-2002Jul15.html >) Ransome SIS not KGB In in ‘Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet Secret agent?’,(8) Andrew Rosthorn rebutted the charge made by Professor Christopher […]

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Deception

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, the authors of another book on this subject, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise. See also the 2005 account by David Rose – yes, that David Rose, ex SIS asset Rose – in Vanity Fair at On Rose and SIS see ‘View from the Bridge’ in Lobster 54.

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] from this article: “England’s action may undermine the prospects of a European Security Conference and may deter talks concerning balanced armament limitations.” Could that be the ba sis of long-range plans of English-American leaders concerning the NATO aggressive bloc? Question We ask that you present some facts about the BIS’s undermining activities during the […]

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Students and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Joel Kotek Translated by Ralph Blumenau Macmillan 1996 £40 An edited version of a PhD the sis, this is an extremely interesting and massively detailed account of the politics of the student movement before and during the early years of the Cold War. Centrally it shows how Communist Party members from various countries, under […]

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Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] of London.”(p76)) It is this period, when he made his fortune, that becomes the most interesting. From 1965 onwards, Cavendish was meeting Oldfield on a regular ba sis for lunch and bridge. His other close friend was George Kennedy Young who supplies the unusual foreword to the book. ‘Unusual’ because Young, who is generally […]

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Lobbying

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] of a ‘hung’ parliament may be talked up, is because its suggestion allows apolitical, and/or cross-party campaigners who are sometimes pan-national, to assert themselves on the ba sis they can advise, maybe even deliver voters – e.g. those anxious about climate change – thus giving the public affairs industry a short-term income boost as […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] one man, a person identified as Henry Azadehdel.” ‘ Irving puts it this way to leave the reader to infer that the CIA had confirmed Irving’s the sis that these are aliases used by ‘Henry Azadehdel’. Unfortunately for Irving, another journalist interested in Armen, Craig Glenday, working on a multi-part series for Marshall Cavendish, […]

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