Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] to take any photographs.2 9 Additionally, Erinys was tangentially involved with exKGB/FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned with polonium in November 2006. Litvinenko was producing ‘business intelligence’ reports into high profile Russian figures for Titon International, which was a subsidiary of Erinys.3 0 27 See footnote 3. 28 See . 29 For the […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] concerned. Page 104 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 of his trips to the Soviet bloc during the Cold War Wilson did talk to someone who was a Soviet intelligence officer with some kind of cover – as a trade official, say. Perhaps Wilson had a few vodkas and talked about British politics. Our Soviet intelligence […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] a constant jockeying for power and favour, like a medieval court. At the centre of all this, as I increasingly found to my cost, was Abdullah Senussi’s intelligence service.’ (p. 50) She was also an interpreter of the world outside Libya – and outside the Middle East – to Gaddafi. Like most of those […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] NATO. Moreover, Trump was on numerous occasions openly sympathetic to Russia and admiring of Putin, even to the extent of ‘siding with Russia’s dictator over his own intelligence agencies’. (p. 58) Hitherto this would have been completely unthinkable, completely unacceptable to Republicans who would, without any doubt, have denounced such a president as a […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] PIIs were issued to prevent an officer of Special Branch, DS Wilkinson, from verifying that Paul Grecian had been acting with official backing in order to gather intelligence on Iraq. The Public Interest Immunity certificates were signed by Kenneth Baker and Peter Lilley, relying on an assessment by the prosecuting council that the documents […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[PDF file]: […] le Carré’s cunning plan? Andrew Rosthorn In the July 1982 foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘ intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] operation into motion. Each time, however, it seemed as if the usual unofficial sanction was not entirely forthcoming. From impounded arms shipments to stern warnings from the Intelligence community, the plot seemed doomed. Indeed, 2 See Christopher Kinsey, Corporate Soldiers and International Security: The Rise of Private Military Companies, (London: Routledge, 2006) pp. 46-49. […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] faction in the CIA, within that covert operations wing. They formed ‘the Safari club’ and resumed their activities entirely off the books with their equivalents from the intelligence services of France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Iran. This was funded by the Saudis; and, Scott thinks, largely by the mechanism of skimming off the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] – and ultimately failed – to detach the AMA from state influence and introduce professional limits on research which could be of use to the American military- intelligence state: the dual-use anthropology in the book’s subtitle. The final chapter has an elegiac tone to it as Price contemplates the state of US universities today. […]