Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] companies’ (pp. 989-1014); Cedric Ryngaert’s ‘Litigating abuses committed by private military companies’ (pp. 1035-1053); and Simon Chesterman’s examination of outsourcing in the intelligence gathering community (‘“We can’t spy if we can’t buy!”: the privatization of intelligence and the limits of out-sourcing “inherently governmental functions”’, pp. 1055-1074), in particular his section on incentives: ‘there are […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
Hitler’s spy chief: the Wilhelm Canaris mystery Richard Bassett London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2005, £20 This is a full and very well researched biography of one of the great enigmatic figures of the spy world in the 30s and 40s. The author, former foreign correspondent of The Times in Berlin and Prague, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] by “men in suits”‘, Mail on Sunday, 11 January 2004 According to bodyguard Kez Wingfield, ‘We all carried at least £1,000 for bungs. Henri Paul was no spy. His job meant contact with police. But he was a glorified doorman. More Inspector Clouseau than 007. He might have choked you to death on his […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
Paul Lashmar Sutton Publishing, Stroud (UK), 1996 £12.99 (pb) Beautifully produced, large (trade) format, with many photographs, this is the story of the US and later US-UK spy flights round – and over – the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Alternatively, it is the story of a protracted series of skirmishes between the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
The Spy who came in from the Co-op David Burke Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The author was conducting a series of interviews with 87-year old Melita Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] could be added, any effort being put into their personal safety) and/or maximise relationships, sometimes including with such local agencies. (16) If the last of these, the spy can be additionally responsible for branding, (17) two-way liaison with local agencies (18) and, in a limited number of cases, monitoring or instruction in acceptable civilian […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
Psi Spies: The true story of America’s psychic warfare programme Jim Marrs Franklin Lakes, New Jersey; New Page Books (newpagebooks.com), 2007, $15.99, p/b I’m not a fan of Marrs. I didn’t think much of his JFK book, Crossfire; and his The Terror Conspiracy (which isn’t included in his CV on the rear cover, for some … Read more
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] ‘Jim Jones was always mysterious and would never talk about his work here in Brazil.'(48) Yet another Rocha, Marco Aurelio, was absolutely certain that Jones was a spy. At the time, Marco was dating a young girl who was living in the Jones household.(49) Because of this, and because Rua Maraba is a narrow […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: Kim Philby: Cad and Bounder? Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy Tim Milne, (London: Biteback, 2014) Scott Newton Few people in the history of espionage have had their public career, achievements, character and private life so thoroughly surveyed and discussed in literature and the media as the British intelligence officer […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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