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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] See Francis Elliott and Sophie Goodchild, ‘Diana verdict: an accident. But did US bug her calls?’ The Independent, 10 December 2006; Byron York, ‘Did the Clinton administration spy on Princess Diana? No’, National Review Online, 14 December 2006. The Express predictably cried ‘foul’ (Mark Reynolds and John Chapman, ‘Diana: it’s a whitewash…’ The Express, […]

Defector Politics: or, grooving with Mr G.

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] supporting seventeen, were Bob Parry – and the aforementioned Bill Michie Les trois amis de Crozier concluded, somewhat obscurely, that, ‘None of this makes Mr Rogers a spy, or even an agent of influence. It simply serves to illustrate why agents of influence and fellow-travellers need fear as little opposition from the Security Service […]

Old spooks’ tales

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] Jews. In England we use American intelligence officers using British equipment to bug British Jews. That way each side can claim to their governments, “Oh, we don’t spy on our own citizens.” ……..by the time of the Bush administration we were collecting rosters of kids going to Jewish summer camps…..’ ‘In every war the […]

Philanthropic imperialism

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

Democracy building or democracy assistance, is a putative socio-economic policy solution, which, because of the extent of the political and economic forces impacting on it, has become a contemporary socio-economic problem. Democracy building’s institutional formation rests upon a reconfiguration of Cold War positions that retain, what Dr. Michael Pinto-Duschinsky termed ‘such interference,’(1)so as to continue … Read more

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] and transgressions by past American presidents. 5 See, for example, Phillip Knightly, ‘The History of the Honey Trap’, ForeignPolicy.com, 12 March 2010 at ; Christopher Beam, ‘The Spy Who Said She Loved Me’, Slate.com, 9 December 2010 at ; Jonathan Zimmerman, ‘Petraeus and the Blackmail Myth’, Los Angeles Times, 16 November 2012; Wikipedia, ‘Love, […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Harvey Oswald 3 in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence ‘honey trap’ while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein’s purported sources. The […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. […]

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