Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Sir Jeremy MacKenzie, plus a former Special Branch member whose police career included ‘responsibilities in counter-terrorism, counter- espionage, counter-subversion and counter-proliferation’.5 3 Attempts at industry regulation In 2001, then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government 51 See Chris Slater, ‘Danny Fitzsimons: Iraq security guard “claimed […]

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 […]

The book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (‘Good Queen Bess’ according to the mainstream media of the day). It turns she was not only an instigator of the burning of witches. She deployed state-backed espionage and torture, including the use of paid informers and the interception of mail. She also murdered her sister and encouraged state piracy, plundering and the licensing […]

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 We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

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[PDF file]: […] board of Pravda.info. ’94 – visiting scholar at Centre for Defence Studies at King’s College London (together with Anton Surikov and Igor Sutyagin, now in prison for espionage). Alfonso Davidovich Ochoa (b. 1948), Venezuelan, resides in Munich, Germany. Has German and Venezuelan citizenship. In the 1970s went through special training in the USSR and […]

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

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Is it simply that Wright (and others) were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us […]

Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Swedish government would promise – which it is in their power to do – that he wouldn’t be extradited from there to the USA on Wikileaksassociated espionage charges. Extradition laws in the past have always contained provisions against ‘re-extradition’, for an obvious reason: to prevent governments from seeking extradition on spurious grounds. It […]

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 […]

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 […]

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