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]: […] 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 […]
[…] the JFK researchers are coming – and Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency […]
[PDF file]: […] of James Angleton’s CI/SIG Division where the mole was thought to have burrowed into. The hunt involved sending Oswald to Russia as a marked card dangling U2 spy plane secrets. The kicker is that the CIA molehunter, Bruce Solie, was in fact the mole who was in the perfect position to thwart the hunt […]
[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]: […] by the British Government. It is reported that Belmokhtar joined a GIA splinter group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). ‘On 44 Anthea Temple, ‘The spy who loved me’, The Guardian, 2 October, 2002, . 45 Curtis, see note 43. United Nations Security Council Committee, ‘Pursuant to resolutions, 1267 (1999) and 1989 […]
