I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a thriller writer and admitted that he was given ‘top secret information’ by the CIA in the 1970s and ‘80s to place in, and spice up, his espionage novels.1 4 Mention should also be made of Philip Birch, the UK Head of Radio London. Birch, who was recommended for the position by Pierson, was […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of a Jewish family in Manchester. Olivia Frank, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, before her training at the Mossad academy. When the West’s second largest espionage agency 12 decided to make an eleventh hour strike against an Abu Nidal bomb-maker who was being supplied with explosives by neo-Nazis, the Mossad sent their […]

View from the bridge

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[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]

Spookaroonie!

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[…] really review them. However, there are some things I can say about them. I’m not quite sure why but I have never taken Gordon Thomas’s books on espionage and parapolitics seriously. Partly, it is just that he writes a lot, and I don’t trust people who are prolific in these fields because this material […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved in the Italian and German espionage efforts in London and provided reports on these to MI5 – though their accuracy and value were disputed. In 1936 Bannigan gave a garble account to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, . 33 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 34 11 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move from Robert Kennedy […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it possible that he was kept out of the loop? We simply don’t know. This one might run and run but these days, who knows? 52 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-cryptoencryption-machines- espionage/ 53 See, for example, or < https://www.quora.com/Where-didall-of-the-thousands-of-Enigma-machines-end-up-after-the-end-of-WW2> 54 Nick Must commented: It is mentioned, very briefly, in the ‘After the War’ section of the Enigma History […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] who needs political satire?’13 The sub-heading, ‘What synchronicity: a WikiLeaks dump, helpful 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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Knew too Much . 19 See, for example, . 20 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 21 or 22 23 7 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Knew too Much 6 . See, for example, . 7 Not sure which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 Health and Social Secretary Wes Streeting said, after announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next […]

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