Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[PDF file]: […] and the recession . . . it is not surprising that so many of the companies are former intelligence agents. Their trade is always a kind of espionage and subterranean warfare, calling for subterfuge, high-level contacts and Swiss bank accounts.149 After the first U.S. foreign trade deficit of the century, in 1971, U.S. arms […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] of free trade. There have also been anxieties expressed in Washington that China is using both foreign investment and its increasingly sophisticated IT and AI sectors for espionage against the West. These have recently centred on Huawei along with Chinese social media corporations such as TikTok and WeChat. The upshot has been a series […]