Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] stories on Zinoviev appeared in August: ‘Red Letter Day’ by Patrick French, in the Sunday Times 10 August 1997, and ‘The forgery, the election and the MI6 spy’ by Michael Smith in the Daily Telegraph 13 August 1997. Both articles were based on the release of certain documents from SIS’s archives which purport to […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] Martin was currently using Sharon Denby to front his model agency business. She said Martin had worked as a private detective and had hired another detective to spy on Owen Oyston’s ex-wife Vicki Oyston. Melanie Hardy also claimed to Murrin that she had that morning noticed signs of an attempted forced entry on her […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] by Walde pp.79-105. The best sketch of Mossad’s structure and functioning is probably the CIA’s own leaked 1979 analysis, Israel: Foreign Intelligence and Security Services in Counter spy (May-June 1982) pp.34-54. Most of the other works on the Israeli intelligence services are ‘hagiographic’. The NATO secret service is so secret that even its name […]
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 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] second contributor to this issue to have been virused recently.) But I had on file this splendid polemic written at the time of the latest outbreak of spy mania to hit this country. Turner’s column proper will begin in the next issue. It must surely rank as one of the silliest ‘silly season’ stories […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
It is a difficult time for Britain’s security and intelligence agencies. Not only have the old certainties collapsed with the Berlin Wall, Britain’s economy is in increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and … Read more
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] MRA was a CIA-funded operation? Although the book is well documented – there are 45 pages of notes – there is nothing to source this fascinating assertion. Spy mania The outburst of spy mania in September – Metrokhin Archive, the STASI stuff, ‘Stalin’s granny’ and all the rest of the piffle – opened the […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] programme: patronage, favour, flattery and relevance – classic control mechanisms – in return for marketing and data collection. As part of the latter, parents were told to spy on their children, many of them adults, as well as find solutions, PR-speak for shortcuts to containment. Exhorted to confront the seeping villainy of heinous fanatics, […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] trying to keep buried here, I missed them. But I’m probably suffering from Secrecy Fatigue. Ever since Peter Wright’s Spycatcher every British publisher has tried to market spy books as “the book they tried to ban’. Alas, far from running the risk of breaking the Official Secrets Act, the only risk you run reading […]