Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] that I disseminated to journalists in 2013 documented such an array of abuses by the NSA, accomplished through such a diversity of technological capabilities, that no one agent in the daily discharge of their responsibilities was ever in the position to know about all of them – not even a system administrator. To find […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
[PDF file]: […] Mr. Kennedy’s. My mind simply couldn’t absorb it all and Louise was struck dumb, her eyes wide open in amazement. Lish introduced the double as a fellow agent and apologized for not preparing us for this shocking experience. We all sat down at the kitchen table. Later I would learn that many American Presidents […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Forsyth, Roald Dahl or (more obviously) the pseudonymous John Le Carré. It might be simply coincidence that Burgess’s publisher (Heinemann) was also Graham Greene’s, and that Burgess’s agent, Peter Janson-Smith, was also Ian Fleming’s. Burgess in Leningrad T he aspects of Burgess’s Leningrad visit that are of interest here can be related briefly, since […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Jona retained that spelling. Peter changed it to Ustinov. For simplicity I have used Ustinov here for both. 16 Peter Day, Klop – Britain’s most ingenious secret agent (Biteback, 2014) and Hugh Purcell, A very private celebrity – The nine lives of John Freeman (Robson Press, 2015) questionnaire enquiring about his racial background and […]