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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 42) Winter 2001/2 Last | Contents | Next Issue 42 Eye Spy!Alex Cox How often does the conspiracy buff/ parapolitics connoisseur stumble upon a new, all-colour, glossy parapolitics magazine at W. H. Smith's at Euston Station? Not that often. When I called Private Eye to mail order a copy of Paul Foot's fascinating report on the Lockerbie trial, I was assured that I could buy a copy at any branch of Smith's. Oh, go on, ' I said, recalling the Eye's long battle against W. H. Smug's and knowing that there were ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 282 - 01 Dec 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue42/lob42-39b.htm
... In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions other Western intelligence agencies except in a chapter at the end discussing a possible EU alternative to the current Anglo-American axis. The main title must be meant ironically. The overwhelming impression left by the book is of massive untrustworthiness. It's true, as Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones points out, that an intelligence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 253 - 19 Nov 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster66/lob66-spies-we-trust.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 40) Winter 2000/1 Last | Contents | Next Issue 40 The Citizen Smith case or the spy who came in from Oporto Frederico Duarte Carvalho Why is a Portuguese journalist writing a book about an almost unknown British spy? Recently I had to answer to this same question from Igor Prelin, my favourite ex-KGB officer whom I first meet in Cannes, France, during the Television Market Fair of April 1994. After I met Igor Prelin in Cannes, I travelled to Moscow the following year and conducted a few interviews with other ex-KGB officers. We only talked about stories with ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 222 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-04.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 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 179 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-17.htm
... The Spy Who Would be Tzar The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground Kevin Coogan London and New York: Routledge, 2022, p/b , £22.99 Robin Ramsay Author Coogan died fairly recently at 67.1 About 20 years ago I met him when he visited the UK, I published one of his essays2 and a review of his previous book.3 As the various tributes on the Net attest, Coogan was a very interesting person and a wonderful researcher. After I had finished this book I noticed that there was a cast of characters' for each chapter at the end of it. That would have been more useful at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 176 - 29 Dec 2021 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster83/lob83-spy-who-would-be-tzar.pdf
... RING OF SPIES: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Cheltenham: The History Press, 2020, £20 Simon Matthews Flick through the 70 or so free view channels on your TV and you'll come across at least half a dozen that specialise in slightly off-beat, but decently made and adequately researched documentaries. Programmes with titles like Abandoned Engineering, Searching for Bigfoot, FBI Files and Unsolved Mysteries. It's hard to tell what the appeal is of this material but one imagines the audience is overwhelmingly male and over 65. Given the number of such programmes there must be a sufficiently large cadre of viewers to justify their production ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 166 - 26 Oct 2020 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster80/lob80-ring-of-spies.pdf
... Did the Mossad steal John le Carré's cunning plan? Andrew Rosthorn In the July 1982 foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli intelligence fraternity' for their advice and co-operation'. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered sincere thanks' to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military intelligence. Le Carré acknowledged: Other Israelis – in particular, certain past and serving officers of the intelligence fraternity – also deserve my sincere thanks for their advice and cooperation. '5 It now appears that the Israeli secret service ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 162 - 03 Jan 2020 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster79/lob79-mossad-john-le-carre.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 34) Winter 1998 Last | Contents | Next Issue 34 Are spies useless?A Hack's Progress Phillip Knightley Jonathan Cape, 1997, 17.99 This is a highly enjoyable and very well written memoir by one of our senior investigative journalists. As a young-Aussie-leaves-home-and-sees-the-world tale this is nearly as entertaining as the celebrated Clive James version (and with fewer forced jokes). Any journalist's memoirs are welcome: it's always interesting to get a glimpse into the inner workings of the major media, and Knightley was around the Sunday Times at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 146 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
... The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 Max Hastings William Collins, 2015, £30, h/b Britain's military record over the past two centuries is pretty patchy overall. She has probably lost more wars than she has won, apart from little ones against poorly armed natives' (and she lost quite a few of those), and prevailed in none of the major ones without the help of more powerful allies. She would certainly have been defeated by Germany in 1939-45, for example, had it not been for the vastly superior force – and sacrifice – of the Soviets, and material and military help from the USA ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 146 - 24 Aug 2017 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster74/lob74-the-secret-war.pdf
... (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, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 145 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-39.htm
