Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I no longer anticipate having to get up from the sofa to answer the door to Jehovah’s Witnesses. But should I be nervous about becoming a police intelligence gathering service? An accompanying leaflet invites me to register my camera with . Here I learn You can register your CCTV cameras or video doorbells on […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[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 […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] United States on the Labour Party, the European Movement and British trade unions. In 1972 Richard Fletcher was commissioned by The Sunday Times Magazine to investigate US intelligence activities at the time of Hugh Gaitskell, and when many questioned the funding source, among other things, of Encounter magazine which much favoured the Labour leader’s […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.26 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987) loved intrigue. Even into her late 70s she still read voraciously about America’s foreign and domestic policies, and regularly entertained former CIA counter- intelligence chief James Angleton, for what the two called ‘Spy chat’.1 A dedicated anti-communist and dyed-in-the-wool Republican, she had served as a Representative for Connecticut between 1943 […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

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