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... KAU lay out their policy documents, the task of this 'Peter Wright' may have been accomplished and the expulsion was simply the authorities maintaining his cover as a liberal sympathiser. It does not seem likely that this is a hitherto suppressed part of Wright's career working for HMG, but damn, the photographs look close. I, said the spy In Gerald James' In the Public Interest, discussed in the section on Scott in this issue in the books section, on pages 50 and 51 there is an extract from a memorandum written by G. K. Young in 1955 while he was SIS no. 2. This is as clear an exposition as I have seen of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 58 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 56) Winter 2008/9 Last| Contents| Next Issue 56 Stalin's granny The Spy who came in from the Co-op David Burke Woodbridge: the Boydell Press, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The author was conducting a series of interviews with 87-year old Melita Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via the KGB defector Metrokhin, that she had been a Soviet spy during and after WW2, leaking nuclear secrets. So Burke's research shifted its focus and this book is the result: partly the original study of the pro-Soviet exile ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-48.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Spinning the Spies: Intelligence, open government and the Hutton Inquiry Anthony Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? The basic view of these gentlemen is that the oiks – us – need not be consulted or informed; we should not bother our heads with such matters because: 'Public ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-44.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 49) Summer 2005 Last| Contents| Next Issue 49 Spies, Lies and Whistleblowers Annie Machon Lewes (East Sussex): Book Guild, 2005, h/b, £17.95 It is hard to 'see' this book because a lot of the material, especially in the first half, is familiar, half-remembered from the press reporting of the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or not, this is a devastating critique of the British security services and the political system which is nominally in charge of them. The only agencies which come well out of this are regional Special ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-45b.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 28 Books Spies at Work Mike Hughes ISBN: 0 948994 06 1. Available on PC disc for £4.99, and as a hard copy plus disk for £19.99 from: 1 in 12 Publications, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford, BD1 2LY. Web: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/cat97.html Available for download at: http://merlin.legend.org.uk/~brs/catalogue/ftpindex.html This book/disk is actually two things which do not connect up too well. The bit that matters is a synthesis of most of the available public information on the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-15.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 29) June 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 29 The Perfect English Spy Tom Bower, Heinemann, London This is the biography of Dick White, the only man to have been head of both MI5 and MI6 (SIS) and it is a massive breach of the new Official Secrets Act. For Bower not only had access to White's memoir of the period, with White to vouch for him, he spoke to 'dozens' of former officers, mostly SIS, all of whom have broken their 'duty of confidentiality', or whatever the exact form of words it was that the Thatcher government came up with against Peter Wright. In ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-12.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last| Contents| Next Issue 57 Spies, Lies, and the War On Terror Paul Todd, Jonathan Bloch, and Patrick Fitzgerald London: Zedbooks, 2009, £14.99, p/b, £39.95 h/b Reviewed by Michael Carlson This book is published as the debate rages in America about whether or not the activ-ities of the Bush regime, specifically the torture of various combat detainees and suspects rendered from various parts of the world, should be subject to some sort of investigation, if not a truth and recon-ciliation commission. The larger issues, involving the systematic bending of the tasks of the intelligence community ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-37.htm
... was highly pleased- the book named names. (Guardian 28th July 1983)*** New Society (31st June 1984) Former MI5 officer Miranda Ingram, who worked with Michael Bettaney, describes working conditions and MI5 philosophy. Boring for her and for us.... Tatler (June 1984) Robert Harris reports on the spy recruitment procedures. There was some talk of prosecutions under the Official Secrets Act for naming MI5 and MI6 premises. They are: MI5 recruitment (positive vetting)- 140 Gower St., London WC1 and 14-17 Great Marlborough St., London WC1 MI6 recruitment- 3 Carlton Gardens, London SW1*** Head of MI6, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-06.htm
... that, having been sent to the USSR as part of a phony 'military defectors' programme run by the CIA or ONI, the 'self-indoctrinated' Marxist Marine Oswald actually did go over to the other side, returning to the U.S. as a spook of two masters-- in the manner of Magnus Pym, the hero of A Perfect Spy. The Le Carre angle is plausibly presented-- Russell relies not only on secondary sources but also on his personal interviews with assassination-linked figures such as George de Morenschild, Antonio Veciana, General Walker of Dallas, Ruth Paine, and Richard Case Nagell. Nagell's interviews and documentary material form the spine of the book. Nagell walked into ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-14.htm
30. Feedback [Lobster #39 (Summer 2000)]
... until 1935, when the GPU moved into it in a big way, the various bodies were separate. And the Comintern was never just a bunch of Soviet intelligence but a world party, even if it did become so loyal to the Soviet Union and the CPSU, the Soviet section of the Comintern. The tendency by authors of the spying genre to blur the differences between pro-Soviet socialists and even liberals, ordinary communist militants, and people working for Soviet intelligence, leads not only to unscholarly work but to nasty witch hunts. What first drew my attention to this trend was when Peter Wright came out with his accusation about Sir Roger Hollis. Chapman Pincher was wheeled out to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-24.htm
