Suddenly in September?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to 9/11 and ‘aggressively deceived’ afterwards. He tells Jay: ‘Virtually all of the agencies of the federal government were moving in the same direction, from a customs agent at an airport in Orlando who was chastised when he denied entry into the United States to a Saudi, to the president of the United States […]

Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting Holden to penetrate the Middle […]

Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] and civil liberties. He writes of various controversies being ‘woven together with some thin threads into a left-wing conspiracy theory in which Starmer is presented as an agent of the security state or even AngloAmerican intelligence organisations’. These are, he insists, ‘insidiously effective smears’. (p. 163) On the contrary, the argument that Starmer’s so-called […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] many in the Pakistan military were very strongly supportive of al-Qaeda.4 6 We know, for example, from the work of Peter Lance that at least one double agent, Ali Mohammed, was close to senior figures within al-Qaeda and the US. We also know that British-born Sheikh Saeed, who, according to former Pakistan president Pervez […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, for Tate reminds us that Harold Macmillan had Downing […]

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