Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] tightening (pretty generous) belts. Let’s hope the IRA, the animal rights movement, Green Anarchist and the anti-roads campaigners are suitably flattered to be the equivalent of the espionage services of a super-power! For all the welcome candour of some of his interviewees, there are still corns that Urban won’t tread on. The whole ‘Wilson […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] 1959 defection to Russia. In part two, I will argue that Oswald’s story must be seen at a minimum in the context of an even more striking espionage affair, the defection to Moscow in the summer of 1960 of Bernon Mitchell and William Martin, former National Security Agency (NSA) officials, both of whom had […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the future. The novel T here have been persistent rumours that Anthony Burgess’s novel (published by Heinemann, London, in May 1962) was in some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] but because this ‘cabinet’ is composed of bureaucrats, academics, professional politicians, businessmen and assorted charlatans in the train of the reigning president, there is need for an espionage organisation which in theory tells these ministers when, where and how to wage war most advantageously. That is the official reason why the criminal cabinet needs […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Stanley Coben, A. Mitchell Palmer: Politician (New York: Columbia University Press, 1963), pp. 207-232 General A. Mitchell Palmer. During the course of the their investigation of German espionage in the United States, Bureau agents discovered Senator Warren Harding, the Ohio Republican, in the arms of his mistress Carrie Phillips, a suspected German spy. A […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] same way as the influence of ‘big oil’ is in decline because, with the exception of Washington, everybody else recognised the environment debate, so too has ‘big’ espionage collapsed. The last of the Cold War spook agencies with leading brand status to topple in ignominy like the rest of them was SIS: in its […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] video, Epstein is seen leaving in the company of a young blonde woman (who I would guess is in her twenties). See, for instance, ‘American charged with espionage in Russia has an unlikely background for a spy’ in The Chicago Tribune 3 January 2019 at or N.B. how that headline states ‘unlikely’, not ‘impossible’. […]
Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] another defector, Lyalin. (111). Wilson said later that Kagan had let Vaygauskas approach him as part of a scheme to assist Sir Arthur Young investigate Soviet commercial espionage. Young had been placed in Kagan’s company as ‘cover’. (h) Harold Wilson was involved in a series of corrupt land deals This presumably refers to the […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Hastings is sceptical of this, though he corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 (SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s […]
