The corporate ex-spook business

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] why some in the private security business may know something about it, is because its absence is where they make their money. As the industry counts ‘business intelligence’ as an area of expertise, there was something highly ironic about the industry personnel demonstrating their ignorance of CSR, and its importance to their clients, in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] think it was ‘an inside job’. But this does not mean that there is nothing to be investigated. As with most official reports into events with sensitive intelligence and/ or political dimensions – and 9/11 had both, in spades – the report into 9/11 was concerned with establishing the official narrative (Al Qaeda attacks) […]

Letter from America: CIA set for Pentagon buyout?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

CIA set for Pentagon buyout? Lester Coleman, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) man who co-authored Trail of the Octopus (about CIA drug-channel involvement in the Lockerbie bombing) writes in the latest Unclassified (quarterly publication of the Association of Former National Security Alumni, no. 34, Fall 1995), that the CIA feels itself threatened by a […]

The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] and he accepts Wilson’s (fictitious) version of his contacts with them. Altogether a most incompetent and evasive piece of work. The House of Lords debate on the Intelligence Services Bill, 9 December, 1993 Lord (Roy) Jenkins of Hillhead: ‘I experienced in the Security Service what I can best describe as an inherent lack of […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] died after making inquiries into a helicopter deal between the Iraqis and Chilean arms dealer Carlos Cardoen. You discuss this as one of several anomalous deaths among intelligence assets in the context of asking why anyone would want to work for the spooks. Naiveté is the obvious answer, but you failed to mention that […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

Lobster Issue

• THE READER’S GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS HAYDEN B. PEAKE – NIBC PRESS National Intelligence Book Center Washington DC THE READER’S GUIDE TO INTELLIGENCE PERIODICALS 86 • LOBSTER – a journal of parapolitics T l1e provenance of LOBSTER is as unusu �l as its name. In 1982, Robin Ra1nsay and Stephen Dorr1l, h10 of […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely […]

Defending the Realm: MI5 and the Shayler Affair

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] without blushing and putting it in scare quotes. (Shayler’s complaints about MI5 can be seen in his submission to the Cabinet Office Review of the security and intelligence services, printed here as appendix 2: they are almost entirely bureaucratic and technical.) In a recent column of his in Punch – issue 93 in the […]

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