Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]
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 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of free trade. There have also been anxieties expressed in Washington that China is using both foreign investment and its increasingly sophisticated IT and AI sectors for espionage against the West. These have recently centred on Huawei along with Chinese social media corporations such as TikTok and WeChat. The upshot has been a series […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] secretary and intelligence services were finally established on a statutory basis in the 1990s, they were encouraged to engage more in the public sphere. Commercial and industrial espionage were legitimised, and the days of secretive but deeply reactionary figures such as Peter Wright and Charles Elwell are long gone. We now live in a […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] stands out is how we are told that the Soviet deepcover controller Konon Molody (a.k.a. Gordon Lonsdale) had been eventually ‘exchanged for a British citizen accused of espionage in Moscow’. Why so coy? This ‘British citizen accused’ was none other than Greville Wynne. In his 1967 book The Man from Moscow, Wynne is more […]
Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] University of Texas Press, 1998) and John Prados, Presidents’ Secret Wars (Chicago: Elephant, 1996), Cullather (see note 1) and Stephen E. Ambrose, Ike’s Spies: Eisenhower and the Espionage Establishment (Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1981). 8 See Schlesinger and Kinzer (see note 3). 17 Winter 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and […]