Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] of Burgess and McLean in 1951, expansive liberal types like Klop were not in vogue. A strong case can be made for him being the most competent intelligence officer the British had working for them 1935-1950. At first glance it might appear that John Freeman, like Ustinov, was a casualty of the Cold War. […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] creates a striking effect, which is difficult to quite put a finger on. The macro/micro contrast between Oswald’s strange life, shuttling about at the behest of some intelligence agency or agencies – the provocateur in the subtitle being only one of his roles – within some of the hottest years of the Cold War […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
[PDF file]: […] continues even after al-Megrahi’s death. The book makes clear that al-Megrahi was a vulnerable figure. He, along with many other Libyans, was a US sanctions buster, had intelligence connections, two passports and did not tell his wife about his regular trips abroad, including those to Malta. But Ashton also puts that into political context […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
[PDF file]: […] Hazel Blears and you can read it for yourself. Russell interprets his experience at the Guardian as a demonstration of the penetration of the media by the intelligence services. But as I wrote to his daughter, Amy, who nudged my elbow about this story: ‘Your dad’s piece, which he has already sent me, does […]