I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

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[PDF file]: […] a thriller writer and admitted that he was given ‘top secret information’ by the CIA in the 1970s and ‘80s to place in, and spice up, his espionage novels.1 4 Mention should also be made of Philip Birch, the UK Head of Radio London. Birch, who was recommended for the position by Pierson, was […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of being ‘an undercover espionage agent with partner, Beyonce Knowles’, protecting the real Tupac Shakur, who is not dead but working for Vladimir Putin. Most hilariously, she has been accused of […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of a Jewish family in Manchester. Olivia Frank, an officer in the Israel Defense Forces, before her training at the Mossad academy. When the West’s second largest espionage agency 12 decided to make an eleventh hour strike against an Abu Nidal bomb-maker who was being supplied with explosives by neo-Nazis, the Mossad sent their […]

Spookaroonie!

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[…] 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 […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 1935 at the office of Violet van der Elst (an anti-capital punishment campaigner). He claimed, at various times, to be involved in the Italian and German espionage efforts in London and provided reports on these to MI5 – though their accuracy and value were disputed. In 1936 Bannigan gave a garble account to […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] computer networks are full of bugs from geo-political rivals waiting to be triggered in the event of conflict. And there are always the accidents, such as 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 […]

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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus

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[PDF file]: […] associations and trade unions, expressing concern at the number of communists and communist sympathisers holding positions in the unions;121 and his administration was being afflicted by the espionage scandals of George Blake and Vassell – and the Profumo Affair which Macmillan apparently believed was part of a See or . The documents can be […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

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[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; terrorism, genocide, espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

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