Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] thought to have been involved in a number of OSS operations in Nazi-occupied Europe. Sometime after the war he hooked up with George Hunter White, a buccaneering agent of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, who would provide plenty of work for him. (White had free access to LSD in the early 1950s and was dosing […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] centres and provided cover for MI9 and MI6 officers. It has been suggested that it is through these centres that the 4 Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: Fourth Estate, 2002) p. 125 5 See , which is a transcription of the IS9 Historical […]
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 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military intelligence. Le […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Avikat in 1961 via the Belgian-Congolese trading company MITRACO. Its owner was the retired Belgian Colonel Jean Cassart, who, in the late 1950s, had become Dornier’s sales agent for Katanga. Negotiations for buying several DO-28As had already started in July 1960. On 24 February 1961 MITRACO placed an order, and on 10 August the […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)