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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] leave little to no trace. In essence, we do not exist before, during or after the event.’23 As two words simply say on their home page: Counter Espionage. Their corporate logo looks remarkably similar to Parliament’s portcullis, which may be considered unfortunate these days. Mackenzie would have been just another Labour peer lurking around […]

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

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[…] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[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 […]

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