Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] not. Andrew Biswell dismisses the espionage rumours with the comment: ‘here is nothing among Burgess’s private diaries or financial papers to suggest that he was paid to spy on the Russians.’ Indeed not but, in any case, that is not what Burgess’s Leningrad adventures appear to suggest. This episode is unmistakably a ‘dangle’: Burgess […]