John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on Stonehouse held by the former Czech intelligence service (Státní Bezpečnost, State Security, generally referred to as the StB) which come to opposing conclusions. Actually even ‘using much of the same material’ can’t be […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Warrenpoint. Subsequently, the former head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield, had been brought out of retirement and appointed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ‘to co-ordinate security and intelligence’ in Northern Ireland. As a part of this, and in consultation with the serving Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, John Hermon, it was decided […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for The New York Review of Books and can be found talking about Arnhem, the United Nations and issues of peace and war.5 Urquhart was the chief intelligence officer of the British Airborne Division in 1944 under the command of Major General Frederick – ‘Boy’ – Browning. The second stimulus came through a Polish […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] analysis of other such data sets in producing a final report. It’s really just a technologically assisted and advanced version of what used to be the traditional intelligence analyst’s role, where reports from sources (both overt and covert) would be read, assessed and collated. Considering that it uses techniques that are so close to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as his link to Wikileaks. Craig Murray has interviewed Credico at […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[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 […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brother, Salem, was flying down to Florida to publicise a Sarasota school’s reading programme.2 In another DC hotel on September 11 the director general of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmood Ahmed, was having breakfast with Senator Bob Splitting some of these long URLs to fit the footnote space may produce problems. If the […]

View from

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[…] has come in for criticism from some of the other researchers.14 Trump and Russia Former British diplomat, Arthur Snell, returned to the question of Trump and Russian intelligence in his ‘Let’s talk about Krasnov: It’s time to take a serious 10 or 11 12 13 See or . 14 4 look at the evidence […]

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