South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] you’ll get the fuller drift. Many of the ex-spooks are quite open about their past employment. Take, for example, Dr Gerhard Conrad PhD – Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies who, ‘is a former senior member of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND)’.7 Mr Keith Beaven, a Visiting Research Fellow, is more circumspect. His profile […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[PDF file]: […] replacement. (This, rather than MI5 incompetence, may explain why so few Soviet operations were exposed in post-war Britain.) More cynically — and cynicism is appropriate where all intelligence and security services are concerned — MI5 had two compelling reasons not to ‘blow’ the CPGB-KGB link. While they would get some temporary kudos for so […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] same as the old ‘C’ Much fanfare – huge media excitement, it seemed – at the appointment of a woman as the new Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service (the ‘C’ of SIS, for the acronym enthusiasts). The whole point of this, it would seem, was to herald a gentler, more feminine touch to […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Lobster on the professional and political activities of Guest More’s father,4 I wrote the foreword to Undercover Killers. Atkinson’s discovery of a devastating leak of raw police intelligence that dropped into the hands of professional criminals in Manchester has exposed the danger of Westminster government schemes that were pioneered by Margaret Thatcher – to […]

Keynes, social democracy and the Great Moving Right Show

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] wealthy since the late 1950s.34 In the British case it was given a helping hand by elements embedded within the state, notably the military and security and intelligence agencies, reluctant to embrace the end of Empire.35 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] levels, and though a ceiling was imposed on the size of the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 estimated that of the near-1,000 Soviet officials (and wives) in the UK, a quarter were […]

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John W. Dower

Lobster Issue

[…] known how much uranium had been transported from Germany to Japan at that point in time, the US was aware, from its ability to read Japanese signals intelligence, that the Japanese Navy had a flotilla of aircraftcarrying submarines and were considering using these to carry out a long distance raid against a major target […]

The Establishment And how they get away with it by Owen Jones

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] there are deficiencies. For someone who apparently spent two years on postgraduate study of US history, Jones is weak on tracing links with UK in matters of intelligence and Atlanticism more broadly. He mentions, for example, Anthony Crosland, but not his CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom spell. He mentions the Heritage Foundation, but not […]

The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right, by Oliver Eagleton

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] I’ve yet seen. It’s almost worth the price of the book in itself. For the author 1 1 relates one example after another in which police and intelligence agency abuse is not prosecuted, lawfare is encouraged and how, in extending the work of the CPS overseas under a Tory government ‘as part of this […]

Gangsterismo: The United States, Cuba and the Mafia: 1933 to 1966 by Jack Colhoun

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] archives. So this is something like the official version. But only from the US side. There is little from the Cuban state’s version of events, notably its intelligence services, which penetrated the anti-Castro groups in America.1 The Mob flits in and out of the story. Although they put millions up at the beginning of […]

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