Search Results for: spy
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] not hesitate to obliterate us if they could. If we want to protect ourselves – and who seriously would argue that we shouldn’t? – we have to spy on them. In electronic terms that means looking for needles in haystacks and you can’t do that 16 without having access to the whole hayfield.’ GCHQ […]
On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA
[PDF file]: […] by other historians, he eventually conceded, ‘I made some claims about facts which have turned out to be unwarranted’. Of his claim that Bruno was the embassy spy, code-named ‘Henry Fagot’, Bossy wrote, ‘I thought so at the time, but have turned out to be mistaken’. Bossy, however, had dragged a lot of fascinating […]
Her Majesty’s secret servants
[PDF file]: […] the names of the agency and had Nighy as MI5. And nobody in the editorial process noticed. (To most viewers it would make no difference, of course.) Spy versus Spy W e have had a lot of tribunals recently. One that has received little attention in the UK is the Smithwick Tribunal in the […]
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. […]
A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?
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 […]
Tittle-tattle
[PDF file]: […] Europe was straightforward: the War on Terror you are just embarking on is one we have been fighting since our birth. Let our high-tech firms and privatized spy companies show you how it’s done.’ ‘It’s not an exaggeration to say that the War on Terror industry saved Israel’s faltering economy, much as the disaster […]