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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. […]
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 […]
View from the bridge
Holding Pattern
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The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] the files proved government mind control activities or some such. 10 or 11 or 12 Roderick Russell introduced us to this. See his and his essay ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . 13 5 was anything but another identikit US imperialist president. Here he is recently in […]