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

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] capital letters, not mine), which remains, writes the author, ‘the single largest expulsion of intelligence officials by any country’. Heath later described it as ‘the most import security action ever taken by any Western government’. In which case, one wonders why the Soviet reaction was so muted, with little of the feared reprisals against […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] period. The author claims that the sensational press coverage of both the Rumrich and Duquesne cases raised public awareness about the threat posed to US democracy and security by German agents, and created a short-lived interest in Hollywood thrillers about heroic ‘G-Men’. Specifically, Warner Brothers released Confessions of a Nazi Spy in May 1939, […]

Brexit beginnings

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the problem having created the political information market in the first place, controlling the cartel. Similar parallels vis-avis the state can be made with the private security industry and military consultancies. Allow one issue to unravel, they collapse into and collide with each other. 4 Sir John said: ‘The next five years will […]

A Jimmy Savile sex scandal concealed during the 1997 General Election

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as Athenaeum sponsor): or 11 12 Daily Mail 28 October 2013 (more details on Savile and Franey’s Athenaeum meeting): or Charles Kaye and Alan Franey, Managing High Security Psychiatric Care, (Jessica Kingsley Publishing, 1998), p. 35 (Franey acknowledges meeting at Athenaeum) 13 See the final paragraph of the report in Guardian 1 November 2012 […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.9 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of or 7 Available at or . 8 9 . 4 the 1980s, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his account of what he sees as his ouster from Lobster. 105 Winter 2010 Lobster was a journal of parapolitics, primarily covering the activities of the British Security and Intelligence Services. It was co-founded/edited with Robin Ramsay, who went through something of a self-confessed mid-life crisis and unceremoniously ejected Stephen Dorril, stole the Lobster […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] O’Brien’s office.” “We tap them, they tap us, it’s routine,” he said.’ (p. 188) It is surprising that a former senior CIA officer, whose speciality had been security, let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the […]

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