Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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 […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] The existence of two secret Main KGB Directorates: the 10th and the 14th. The job of the 10th was to protect Biopreparat and the 14th had to spy and check up on the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defence which was in charge of guarding nuclear weapons. “Who guards the guards?” … […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[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 […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] 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.74 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.75 Who’s beaming who? The so-called ‘Havana syndrome’ is […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[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. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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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 […]

View from Bridge

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[…] Moscow in 2021, Burns told Russian 9 officials that any sort of operation that caused severe brain injuries for US personnel was out of bounds for Russia’s spy services, and that there would be consequences if Russia is shown to be responsible, according to people briefed on the conversations. The Times further reported that […]

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