[…] this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What little there is in the British press is almost exclusively the routine nonsense of espionage – expulsions and counter expulsions. The recent great brouhaha about Oleg Bitov rather makes the point. What did we learn? The British intelligence services have ‘safe […]
[…] Turner’s account of these events, in his memoir Secrecy and Democracy. (2) On pp.193-205 Turner says the following. The CIA cuts were in what he calls ‘the espionage branch’, otherwise known as the Directorate of Operations. Under DCI George Bush this ‘espionage branch’ had been studied and a reduction of 1350 positions over five […]
The spectre of technofascism haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central […]
[…] lists of the period. Margaret Bradfield: MI6 Chief of Stockholm 1989 (Intelligence Newsletter 6 December 1989). John Quine: MI6 40s and 50s ended as Head of Counter- Espionage Department (Sunday Telegraph 16 September 1990). Ian Crichley: MI6 40s and 50s, ended as Deputy Head of Personnel Department (Sunday Telegraph 16/9/90). Murray Micklejohn: MI6 involved […]
Welcome to Lobster, the journal that looks at the impact of the intelligence and security services on history and politics. From espionage to dirty tricks to conspiracy theories. What else is in Lobster? Check out the keywords in the box in the sidebar, right. Lobster issues 58 and onwards are free. Earlier issues of […]
[…] minority Sunni elite. Its majority Shia population is not a ‘secular’ one. Corinne Souza’s memoir on Iraq and her father’s SIS service, The Spy’s Daughter: Tales of Espionage from Baghdad to London will be published by Mainstream in March 2003, price £15.99. Notes 1. Even school-children in cafes throughout the Middle East knew that […]
[…] we can skim across them even more quickly. MI5, encouraged by a section of the CIA, began ploughing through the PLP and Wilson’s entourage looking for Soviet espionage. And found none, incidentally. On Gaitskell’s death the leadership of the American tendency passed to Roy Jenkins and its focus shifted to the Common Market. Members […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
