Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[PDF file]: […] confusing. The English are not the only people who produce eccentrics, and Hastings’s narrative features dozens; best among them probably the British double – or triple – agent Ronald Seth, aptly codenamed ‘Blunderhead’, who gets a chapter to himself. Apart from a liar and a fantasist he was – or portrayed himself as – […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: […] known as Martin Ingram. See, for starters, . The reliability of Hurst/Ingram’s stories in unclear to me. Republican sources have tried to discredit Ingram, mainly because of what he has said about the British agent Steaknife. On which see, for example, . Evidently the Irish government thought him worth talking to. 11 See 12 farce.
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] book The Man from Moscow, Wynne is more candid almost right from the start. On the sixth page of the first chapter he admits: ‘I was an agent and my training had been thorough and explicit.’22 Another instance of Christopher Andrew being somewhat economical with the actualité comes when he discusses MI5’s interrogation of […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] the possibility that Brown’s family was set up for assassination. Mr Blake Knox also ignores this critique. The killing of solicitor Pat Finucane by a loyalist British agent is similarly bypassed. Brown described Special Branch’s subversion of his attempt to catch and convict Finucane’s killer. Mr Blake Knox’s prejudice in favour of a view […]