Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] search the EPA publications catalogue. CIA http://www.odci.gov/cia Includes general information about the CIA (its history, mission, and a virtual tour), publications (including World Factbook and Factbook on Intelligence, Chiefs of State and cabinet members of foreign governments, handbook of economic statistics and CIA maps). US Intelligence Community http://www.odci.gov/ic A group of 13 US government […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] 805 899 3433; fax 805 899 4773. US subs are $25 for 4 issues; better inquire for subs outside the US. Surveillant Subtitled ‘Acquisition and Commentary for Intelligence and Security Professionals’, this is the best, most informative magazine about other sources on spooks, their techniques, history and related areas. It is now just starting […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] with its state-of-the-art website and a political storm began to blow. Soon Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus was calling for an investigation, and the Senate Intelligence Committee had scheduled hearings. Belatedly, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and New York Times all recognized that, this time around, they couldn’t ignore the story. […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Anthony Glees, Philip J. Davies, and John N. L. Morrison London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2006, £20, h/b The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is a recent addition to the roster of Whitehall bodies; the motives of those who created it, as the authors show, are obscure and its role to some extent […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] impersonating the real LHO, we’re talking about a shadow Oswald who can be documented from the early 1950s onwards. As Armstrong states: In the early 1950s an intelligence operation was underway that involved two teenage boys: Lee Oswald from Fort Worth and a Russian-speaking boy named ‘Harvey Oswald’ from New York. Beginning in 1952 […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
British Spies and Irish Rebels British Intelligence and Ireland, 1916-1945 Paul McMahon Woodbridge, Suffolk: The Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £30 First up, I have no specialist knowledge of this area, so if there any howlers in here, I’m unlikely to spot them. However, I know a good book when I see one. This has […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] badly shaken last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist mole”. (1) In a gesture […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] affairs and personal intrigues of Ward, Profumo and Ivanov were the British Security Services; and further back, and probably not apparent to the participants, was the wider intelligence battle between East and West. It is worth going into some detail on this area as it provides clues to Novotny’s true position.(13) In April 1961 […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
Nicola Calipari’s death If the tragic death of ‘Nicola Calipari’, the international oper-ations chief of Italy’s military intelligence service, in March 2005, was, as has been alleged, a deliberate act rather than misadventure, it is one of the most recent examples of extreme PR ‘message management’ I can think of. () ‘Public relations’ is […]
