The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] US entry into World War I was the expansion of the federal government’s domestic intelligence (policing) apparatus. While US Army Intelligence retained much of its authority to spy on political dissidents, the increasing industrialisation catalysed by the war mobilisation created a greater threat from organised labour. Private industry had been able to suppress unionisation […]

lob86View from Bridge

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[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]

lob86View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

Knightley

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[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Special Access, one of the highest in government, I couldn’t get answers. It wasn’t until February 2008 that I learned that CSIS thought I was an American spy. I had done nothing to justify this. I complained to the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), and in so doing I revealed that the Rt. Hon. […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]

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[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] bombers only did things that made them look like possible bombers with……. likely spies, or in the case of Junaid Babar, through contact with a known American spy. At each point they connected to something that might be called Al Qaeda, they connected through likely spies and at each point that this happened there […]

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