SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[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 […]

ValentinePiscesMoonCIA

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[…] The twelfth is the house of secrets and dreams. Pisces is symbolized by two fish swimming in opposite directions and rules everything below the surface – deception, espionage, foreign things, prisons and religion. According to my astrologer friend Helen Poole, my leaving and returning during a Pisces moon, and traveling throughout the sun sign […]

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 […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] had been helping the Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[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 […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘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.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]

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 […]

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 […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] French government in exile in London. It went on to serve the post-liberation government of France before it became the ‘Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre- Espionage’ (SDECE) in April 1946. 45 46 Email to the author from Andrew Rosthorn, 13 May 2023. 18 Indeed, according to Charpier, Guerber was at this time […]

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 […]

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