Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[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).
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] defence establishments throughout the country – Latimer House at Amersham, for example. The lectures were on a variety of subjects, including European history, ‘post-war’ economics, subversion, policing, espionage and counterespionage. These are the names of the lecturers Sanderson recalled when writing the first version of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] some of the gossip about these – and some of it may have been deliberate attempts at setting hares running, as would always be the case in espionage – wasn’t conflated later with a supposed detailed foreknowledge of Hess’s flight. It could, for instance, have been the case that the message about Hess trying […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g. the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] had also had an affair with Dulles.24 CIA penetration of the Luce media empire itself had reached something of a height during Clare’s Rome mission. Harry’s own espionage entrée came in 1953, when he assisted the CIA by helping to bail out the cash-strapped Partisan Review with a donation of $10,000. With Harry’s approval, […]