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’. […]
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[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 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Powers doesn’t. These essays are mostly about the CIA. The problem is that there are two CIAs. There’s the CIA which does analysis, gathers information and conducts espionage and counter-espionage. This is a central intelligence agency. But there’s another one, which kills, bribes, corrupts, overthrows. This is not an intelligence agency: it is a […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] with Bob Stewart, a senior official, at the Party’s King Street headquarters, to discuss his future role in the organisation.3 He complained about his unwilling involvement in espionage, telling Stewart that this was ‘the only time I’ve really been unhappy in the Party’. MI5 had Stewart’s office bugged (‘Operation Table’) and heard all the […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] in January 1968 to withdraw British forces from ‘East of Suez’ (other than Hong Kong); the decision in September 1971 to expel 105 Soviet diplomats for alleged espionage and the decision in April 1982 to despatch a naval task force to the South Atlantic. Two things should be said at the start. First, this […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] may have stayed so had the Japanese not attacked Pearl Harbour. As indicated in the title, there was some US-UK collaboration on this matter and various German espionage activities in the US were thwarted. But the involvement of MI5 was actually quite limited. In 1937-1938 they monitored the activities of a Mrs Jordan who […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] 2011 Development of SIS novelists T he SIS has also had the good sense and patience to encourage youngish men to establish careers as novelists – like espionage, PR is a long game. The authors I have noticed with SIS connection now maintaining the brand by feeding the espionage fiction habit are Charles Cumming […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of it even has reassuring Eastern European labels on it. If the former Soviet bloc can no longer be plausibly portrayed as exporting revolution, terrorism, subversion and espionage to Britain, the remnants of the Soviet empire are now (we are told) engaged in money laundering, drug-running, gunrunning and – the holy grail – nuclear […]