Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] even China – comes close to challenging the United States in power and influence. The US’s strength lies in its power to bribe, the breadth of its intelligence agencies, its sophisticated public relations operations, and especially its military might. Consequently, it is the ambition of US businesses, using the military as a vehicle, to […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] information about James Angleton, James McCord (one of the early Olson investigators and later a Watergate burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] acquaintances, such as John Cairncross’.2 But whereas these accounts could be dismissed, effectively marginalised, as the work of the Party’s enemies, Andrews’ exploration of Klugmann’s involvement in intelligence work for the Soviets is absolutely conclusive. Andrews begins his biography with an account of Klugmann’s meeting with a Cambridge friend who was working at the […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: Using the UK FOIA, part II Nick Must Why does the UK government not want me to know the names of attendees at two European intelligence meetings, which were hosted in London and that took place more than 65 years ago? It’s a question that really does need answering, particularly when one considers that […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an intelligence officer: ‘ “You realise,”said the spook, as we sat on a bench in Berkeley Square, opposite Maggs Bros. Ltd, by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] clear lines. Thus it was with – can I say this? – the anticipation of nostalgia that I began this account of the defection of the Polish intelligence officer Michal Goleniewski to the Americans in 1961 and the subsequent ramifications. I was not disappointed. Up to the mid-1950s the US intelligence services had gathered […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Islamic terrorist attacks in London. See my ‘MI5 speaks to the nation!’ in Lobster 79 at . 2 See, for instance, ‘The supposed superiority of the UK intelligence agencies is a myth’ by Mary Dejevsky for the Guardian in 2016 at or . 3 1 that he has been heavily promoting.4 This new creation […]