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 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan Police […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as a taxi-driver, waiter or similar.’ 8 See, for instance: ‘Election 2019: Arron […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)