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 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 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[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 […]