Assange again

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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 […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] file on her late father and tries to show that Joseph Frolik and other Czech spooks in London were simply exaggerating – or inventing – agents and espionage activities to claim expenses they hadn’t incurred. In her reading of the documents, the StB officers in London ate their way round the fine dining rooms […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

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 […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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).

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Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[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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