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Beaumont novel copy
A Spy Alone Charles Beaumont London: Canelo, 2023, £9.99 (p/b) Robin Ramsay This is only the second novel I have reviewed in Lobster.1 The cover and the author blurb tells us that author Beaumont is a ‘former MI6 operative’. ‘Operative’? Why not ‘officer’? The author tells me the word was chosen by the publisher. […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] . 49 Christopher Ketcham wrote about this in 2010 in his essay at . which was redacted by MI5 prior to publication, has been published in Counter Spy by Simon Tomlin.5 0 In that section Machon reports that a source in MI5 she calls Swallow Tail told her and her then partner David Shayler […]
Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware
[PDF file]: […] Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft, according to people familiar with its sales pitch. NSO Group’s flagship smartphone malware, nicknamed Pegasus, has for years been used by spy agencies and governments to harvest data from targeted individuals’ smartphones. But it has now evolved to capture the much greater trove of information stored beyond the […]
Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran
[PDF file]: […] to the energy-security industry, they may also have a 18 Caryle Murphy, ‘Wikileaks Reveals Saudi Efforts to Threaten Iran’, 29 November 2010. 19 Kim Zetter, ‘NOKIA Seimens Spy Tools Aid Police Torture in Bahrain’, Wired: Threat Level, 23 August 2011; and Spencer Andrai’s Danger Room: ‘New US Commando Team Operating near Iran’, Wired, 19 […]
The view from the bridge
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[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]
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[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He […]