Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] smear the reputation of the nonaligned leader of Indonesia, President Sukarno, by producing a fake surveillance video that appeared to show him bedding a beautiful blond Soviet spy. Maheu also tried to arrange a tryst between Sukarno and a beautiful woman agent, to no avail.11 Maheu continued doing secret jobs for the CIA until […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered to watch the Kincora care home in Belfast in the 1970s because one of […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] also be subject to court approved warrants: Edward Snowden: Because, so again, it gets back to legitimate secrets and illegitimate secrets. Some spying from my perspective, ‘career spy’ is okay, right? Joe Rogan: Agreed. Edward Snowden: If you have hacked a terrorist phone, and you’re getting some information about that, useful. Joe Rogan: Agreed. […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] 5 First, in a wonderful piece of no-spin spin, an interactive photo of Sir John in his speedos was officially released. Taken by his wife, it told spy chiefs in authoritarian countries that Britain is a civilian nation and its spies conform to its culture; it told taxpayers that Sir John is of, not […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.75 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.76 72 A study in Foreign Policy states that […]