Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry Crane, ‘was deeply involved in this’ and regularly passed information from MI5 onto the Labour Party’s national agent and witch-hunter in chief, Sarah Barker. This relationship ‘between right-wingers in the Labour Party and MI5 was held close, and nothing was written down’. Wilson was […]

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[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

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[…] cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael Josselson, the CIA agent who had set up the Congress for Cultural Freedom, had told Irving Kristol, the coeditor of Encounter, that he should run a review “by one of […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] compiled by British Military Intelligence and leaked by two UDR men’.10 And the Army’s Force Research Unit (FRU) knew that all this was going on because their agent, Brian Nelson, had helped facilitate the plot.11 In 2003 Ms Streisand sued an aerial photographer for taking a photo of her home on the Californian coast […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the police on the grounds that he was in breach of electoral law (he was) by distributing specifically partisan and targeted material without indicating a printer or agent and without submitting proper expenses. This resulted in a major Special Branch enquiry throughout the remainder of 1970 during which Simon Dee (whose whereabouts were known) […]

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[…] compiled by British Military Intelligence and leaked by two UDR men’.10 And the Army’s Force Research Unit (FRU) knew that all this was going on because their agent, Brian Nelson, had helped facilitate the plot.11 In 2003 Ms Streisand sued an aerial photographer for taking a photo of her home on the Californian coast […]

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