Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)
[…] RV is not operationally useful (bad enough but also dismissing the many hits in the oper-ational, non-experimental efforts with RV). Given the low reliability of so many espionage methods and sources, one would have expected them to be delighted with 15% over chance. Obviously, the conclusions were dictated in advance of the evaluation study […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] culture, traditions, geography, language and history to the political needs of their respective governments.(16) American anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris was also a clandestine operative engaged in counter- espionage for the OSS in West Africa and in South Africa during World War Two. Declining an offer from the CIA, he also worked for the United […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] almost every congressional district, making cuts politically difficult. There is nothing like a Dame On his blog, Michael John Smith, who wrote about his wrongful conviction for espionage in Lobster 52, reproduces the text of an e-mail he has sent to the publisher of Dame Stella Rimington’s memoir.(10) Smith makes the interesting point that […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] in recruiting, those resources for purposes unrelated to fighting crime. These have included the testing of mind-altering drugs on unwitting suspects, recruiting assassins and engaging in political espionage abroad under cover of law enforcement.(2) The story of Oliver North’s similar success in recruiting the DEA bureaucracy throws into sharp relief the hypocrisy of official […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor […]