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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: 287 - 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: 235 - 20 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: 215 - 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: 184 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-17.htm
... (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 - 01 Sep 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: 141 - 01 Jun 2003 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue45/lob45-39.htm
... : The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby John Prados Oxford University Press: Cary [North Carolina], 2003 The Man Who Kept the Secrets Thomas Powers (New York: Knopf: 1979) Honorable Men William Colby London: Hutchinson, 1981 Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?Michael Holzman Many people find stories about spies interesting. Some of us identify with the spies, some with those spied upon. If the stories claim to be true they offer the promise of finding out what really happened. Of course some of the words in the preceding sentence ( 'true, ' 'really happened') should be safely encased in quotation marks. That said ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 120 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-16.htm
... ), and bragged of having 'three other girlfriends' while 'living with Marla'.1 Despite this record, many conservative evangelical leaders and other champions of 'family values' supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by hostile U.S . intelligence officials of unsubstantiated reports that Russian spies 'tried to blackmail him with sex tapes' that showed him cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.3 Books cited in the footnotes are listed in the bibliography at the end of the essay. 1 David Fahrenthold, 'Trump Recorded Having Extremely Lewd Conversation About Women in 2005', Washington Post, 8 October 2016; Mary Jones ...
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... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last | Contents | Next Issue 54 Spy Wars: Moles, mysteries and deadly games Tennent H. Begley London and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007, h/b , £18.99 Begley was one of James Angleton's allies in CIA counterintelligence and this book is the Angletonian view of the Nosenko case, one of the touchstones or causes célèbres of the CIA in the post-war era. Briefly, Nosenko was a KGB officer who defected to the Americans just after JFK's assassination, having been in contact with the CIA before it. All defectors ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 101 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-43b.htm
