Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]
Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)
[PDF file]: […] of the MI6 plot in the summer of 1995 – approximately eight to nine months before the assassination attempt took place. There where subsequently a number of intelligence coordination meetings between MI5 and MI6 where Shayler says mentions were made of progress – e.g. funding being in place. Annie Machon’s book on their experiences […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]