Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of 2017: ‘Britain’s energy companies were hacked on the day of the General Election by computer criminals believed to have been backed by Russia. The Government’s electronic spy agency GCHQ said in an official report sent to the energy sector that companies “are likely to have been compromised” in the wake of the attack […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] Europe was straightforward: the War on Terror you are just embarking on is one we have been fighting since our birth. Let our high-tech firms and privatized spy companies show you how it’s done.’ ‘It’s not an exaggeration to say that the War on Terror industry saved Israel’s faltering economy, much as the disaster […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[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 […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] for pushing this policy, handing the country over to Nuri al-Maliki. Her hostility was reciprocated with one of Hill’s staff describing her as a ‘goddam fucking British spy’. For the US military, ‘the greatest threat to the mission had become the US embassy’. Her identification with the US military was complete. They had success […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] were planning to bug various countries’ delegations at the UN. A book about her and that incident has been published in America: Marcia and Thomas Mitchell, The Spy Who Tried To Stop A War: Katharine Gun And The Secret Plot To Sanction The Iraq Invasion (PoliPoint Press, Sausalito, CA. 2008). This is reviewed in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] a new book about the death of the Labour MP Bob Cryer: Killing Cryer: The Life and Mysterious Death of a British MP Who Exposed America’s Secret Spy Base.21 Who’s zooming who? It sure is getting complex out there where the interests of global corporations and states meet the internet. Trying to protect their […]

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