Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 counterespionage. 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 […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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 […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] where reports from sources (both overt and covert) would be read, assessed and collated. Considering that it uses techniques that are so close to those of state espionage, it should come as no surprise that Palantir Technologies has Sir Mark Allen (the ex-MI6 officer who is a suspect in rendition cases) as ‘a senior […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Garrick part 2

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Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to what […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Middle East. He noted in July 2016: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ Then in the 2017 Al Jazeera film series 9 Israeli ‘diplomat’ Shai Masot is shown seeking to organise […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Office, Hugo Swire, has stated that he would ‘actively welcome’ and ‘do everything to facilitate’ that. Apparently it’s still up to Ny. (Yes, her alone.) She’s said to be thinking about it. Bernard Porter is a retired Professor of History and author of Plots and Paranoia A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988 (1989).

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