Spook PR

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 […]

British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986)

[…] STAFF COLL QUETTA 1947 HM CIVIL SERVICE 1965 CONTROLLER OF ENEMY PROPERTY 1969 RETIRED NOVELIST ‘WILLIAM HAGGARD’. ASSOCIATED WITH INTELLIGENCE WORK DURING HIS CAREER. (WHO’S WHO IN SPY FICTION. DONALD MCCORMICK, LONDON 1977) CLIFFORD, WG MI6 (PHILBY) 1955 2ND SEC (VISA) BEIRUT CLIFT, RICHARD DENNIS CMG (1984) B 18.5.33 MI6 (BF) 1956 FO 1958 […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[…] agencies, spying, databases and archives. Infomanage http://www.infomanage.com/ Many subject categories, including politics, intelligence, legal, conflict resolution. E.g. under intelligence: secrecy and government; intelligence community; information warfare; recent spy cases; U.S. intelligence budget; foreign intelligence operations; government. and non-government. intelligence organisations; intelligence-related journals; secrets/conspiracies e.g. TWA flight 800, Gulf War Syndrome, Whitewater, plutonium experiments; newsgroup […]

Psi Spies

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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

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] many others. However, as Riley himself has argued in the past (Lobster 16), would Rothschild have really been in charge of the recruitment of the most successful spy ring in modern times before he was twenty years old? Would Rothschild have continued working for the KGB after the Soviets became anti-Israeli in 1948? It’s […]

Spy Flights of the Cold War

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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 […]

Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

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 […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] handler on the grounds that ‘for me “practical love” is a PHYSICAL NECESSITY’. On surviving the war, surprisingly, he went on to become a prolific author of spy and travel books, and – under a pseudonym – of Sex Manners for Advanced Lovers (1969), The Sensuous Couple (1971) and Mainly for Wives (1963). It […]

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