Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] nearly a week before the USSR owned up to its deed. When it did, its spokesmen were adamant that KAL 007 had been on a deliberate ‘ spy mission’, one which included a ten minute ‘rendezvous’ with one of our RC-135 (Cobra Ball) spy planes. The alleged rendezvous occurred as the airliner approached the […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] thing as the ‘Sunni Triangle’. There is now. 9 As my father, an SIS agent and SIS’s one-time leading authority on Iraq, said (without being Iraq-specific), ‘A spy, on behalf of the Crown, cannot recruit good quality sources seeking to undermine a regime from within, if HMG is doing all it can to secure […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)
[…] a couple of friendly journalists, Patrick French (‘Red letter day’ in the Sunday Times 10 August 1997) and Michael Smith (‘The forgery, the election and the MI6 spy’ in the Daily Telegraph 13 August 1997). This is discussed in Lobster 34, p. 22. Number of column inches devoted by the Daily Mail to a […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] to one of their meetings after reading a book on U.S. involvement in Vietnam and walking out of my fraternity. They must have thought I was a spy, with my short hair and button-down clothes, but it didn’t matter because at the time SDS accepted everyone and I was wearing a strong suit of […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] the States. Indeed it appears that the British set up an independent intelligence operation in New York, under a cultural guise of a library, lectures etc, to spy on these people. However they did not know what Philip was up to when he was in the Mid West. Britain however was a different matter. […]