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... be obvious or overt, but will continue nevertheless. Why else would the government feel compelled to publish a new Competition White Paper to combat cartels? And why else would the European Parliament, in defence of the single market, want to hold an inquiry into the United States' (and others') intelligence role in alleged state-sponsored industrial espionage? But much of the evidence unearthed by the European Parliament's Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System and in Bamford's Body Of Secrets suggests that state-gathered intelligence is not used to help private companies gain advantage over competitors. That is to say, the evidence has not been conclusively found. It was hardly to be expected that it would be ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 150 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-33.htm
... outside your agency. This translation of that article was made by the FBI. The double translation, from Philby's English into Estonian (or Russian), then back into English again may explain the curiously stilted quality of this and the occasional grammatical error. Question We know that you are one of the greatest specialists concerning matters connected with British espionage and undermining activities and so-called psychological warfare. What can you tell our readers concerning the anti-Soviet campaign in England? Kim Philby Kim Philby Kim Philby In the 1940s I had the opportunity to become well acquainted with the most protected and, therefore, the most dangerous operations of the BIS. (British Intelligence Service). I have to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 125 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last| Contents| Next Issue 50 PR, espionage and language Corinne Souza British 'USP' In September 2000 the tragic case of two infants from Malta dominated the headlines.( [1]) British judges were asked to decide whether it was 'right' for doctors to sacrifice one child, joined at the abdomen with her twin, for the sake of the other. As a result of global press coverage, the moral arguments were fretted over in pubs and tavernas across nations. By-products of the international media exposure included fantastic PR for this country, and an opportunity to market the skills of British medics. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 120 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-34.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 38) Winter 1999 Last| Contents| Next Issue 38 Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America James Earl Haynes and Harvey Klehr, Yale University Press, London and Yale, 1999, £19.95 The Haunted Wood: Soviet espionage in America- the Stalin era Allen Weinstein and Alexander Vassiliev Random House, New York, 1999, $30.00 So now we know: most of what the the Republican right in the US, the Joe McCarthys and Nixons and Hoovers, were saying in the 1950s about the presence in the US of Soviet espionage networks was basically true. In 1943 the US Army began trying to decode the Soviet radio traffic in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 106 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-20.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 45) Summer 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 45 Baghdad's Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London Corinne Souza Edinburgh/London: Mainstream, 2003, £15.99, h/b This is an important and interesting book but rather hard to describe because it contains so much. At its heart is Souza's father, an Iraqi Anglophile, who became SIS's agent in Iraq, and later in London. Using her firsthand knowledge supplemented by her father's papers, Souza has created a classic of the espionage genre: I know of no better account of the experience, the mechanics and the feel of being a spy ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-39.htm
... ' Chief Calipari's assets.( [7]) Irrespective of the extreme 'messaging', and assuming that the Americans now control or have dismantled Chief 'Calipari's' network, what amounts to little more than cut throat recruitment( [8]) will not sustain the US in Iraq indefinitely. There are no shortcuts because the basis of the espionage relationship is the deep emotional attachment that exists between 'good' case officers and 'good' agents/sources.( [9]) Above all, the espionage relationship is about friendship. It has special status, particularly in the Middle East, because it can override family ties. Developing it requires standards, time, patience, respect ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 81 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-16.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 41) Summer 2001 Last| Contents| Next Issue 41 Spies and children Corinne Souza Espionage is two things- a career and a lifestyle. Both can be wildly exciting. Those who deny this have never been spies. Children born to SIS agents enjoy this lifestyle which can have many advantages. The home environment is usually stimulating, cosmopolitan and informed. There can also be one-off bonus such as acquisition of a British passport. for a non-UK citizen. If a child's parents are spies, the child is usually an active participant in espionage at every stage of his or her development. S/he grows up with spies, whether these ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 79 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-17.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last| Contents| Next Issue 54 The History of Espionage The clandestine world of surveillance, spying and intelligence from ancient times to the post 9/11 world Ernest Volkman London: Carlton, 2007, h/b, £20 This is a lavishly and creatively illustrated, large format, (i.e. slightly bigger than A4) glossy paper, coffee-table book on the history of espionage. A former journalist with Newsday, and author of many previous books on spying, Volkman knows the subject and his text is well written. Since the author covers events from ancient Egypt to post-9/11, what we ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 72 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-45b.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 46) Winter 2003 Last| Contents| Next Issue 46 Advertising, Iraq and espionage Corinne Souza Advertising In 1960s Iraq, the children of the poor carried their most treasured possessions to school in much coveted, branded soap-powder packets. When these eventually disintegrated, what remained was stuck up on the classroom wall. As a result, children could pick out the words 'Tide' or 'Omo'. Praised by their teacher for doing so, a whole generation associated this approval with a country they did not know and might never visit. Thirty years earlier, the teacher's football-mad father played footie in the desert with equally football-mad Iraqis. They called their ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 60 - 01 Dec 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue46/lob46-06.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 27 The New Spies: Exploring the Frontiers of Espionage James Adams Hutchinson, London, 1994. I first noticed James Adams when he began running some of the MOD's disinformation lines about Colin Wallace and Fred Holroyd in 19867. For a while I collected articles by him which seemed to show the traces of Whitehall briefings. Then I stopped: what was I going to do with such articles? Mr Adams is a kind of successor to Chapman Pincher. The Whitehall warriors feed him stuff, he writes it up for the paper-- the traditional role of the British 'defence correspondents', ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-18.htm
