Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] some of the gossip about these – and some of it may have been deliberate attempts at setting hares running, as would always be the case in espionage – wasn’t conflated later with a supposed detailed foreknowledge of Hess’s flight. It could, for instance, have been the case that the message about Hess trying […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g. the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] had also had an affair with Dulles.24 CIA penetration of the Luce media empire itself had reached something of a height during Clare’s Rome mission. Harry’s own espionage entrée came in 1953, when he assisted the CIA by helping to bail out the cash-strapped Partisan Review with a donation of $10,000. With Harry’s approval, […]