[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that […]
[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 […]
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. […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] equipped with broadcasting radios. Indeed, Atkins admits that the TRD radio sets, with which Section VII from MI6 had been equipped, ‘were not terribly effective as a spy set’.1 0 The advantage, as I see it, that the Auxiliary Units Operational Patrols had, was that they did not possess any radios and were, thus, […]
[PDF file]: […] conspiracy theories – until they were investigated and proven real. Many examples of systemic sexual abuse by the wealthy – Harvey Weinstein’s use of the Israeli mercenary spy group Black Cube to track and silence dozens of Hollywood actresses he assaulted while countless witnesses stayed silent, for example – sounded unbelievable until painstakingly revealed […]
[PDF file]: […] introduction to The Enemy of Europe, which Francis told me he got from Kaye. Kaye may also be responsible for the zany claim that a mysterious German spy service called ‘Z-16’ confiscated the German edition of Enemy of Europe. If the book was confiscated, which is quite possible, it would almost certainly have been […]
