Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] leave little to no trace. In essence, we do not exist before, during or after the event.’23 As two words simply say on their home page: Counter Espionage. Their corporate logo looks remarkably similar to Parliament’s portcullis, which may be considered unfortunate these days. Mackenzie would have been just another Labour peer lurking around […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] evangelist Pat Robertson’s Regent University. What the USA has ended up with is a President ‘beholden to Russia’. Frum describes Trump’s election as ‘the most successful foreign espionage attempt against the United States in the nation’s history’ (p. 134). His ‘deference to Putin reverberated through the western alliance’ (p. 155) and more generally, he […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] The Independent on Sunday. He has conducted radio and television investigations into the fate of Hitler’s deputy Rudolf Hess, CIA sabotage of Leyland exports to Cuba, corruption in ammunition supply at the Ministry of Defence, breaking UN sanctions in Serbia for Marks and Spencer, the Owen Oyston Affair and pre-war Royal Navy espionage in Japan.
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] (‘Good Queen Bess’ according to the mainstream media of the day). It turns she was not only an instigator of the burning of witches. She deployed state-backed espionage and torture, including the use of paid informers and the interception of mail. She also murdered her sister and encouraged state piracy, plundering and the licensing […]