Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility […]

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The History of Espionage

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] 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 […]

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] and does work. In his very entertaining and intriguing book, Plots and Paranoia, Professor Bernard Porter recognises part of this fact. He introduces his book thus: ‘Domestic espionage is the hidden underside of politcal history. It may be immensely important. It is possible that without it we would be a very different country from […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] that that implies, rather than electoral law. The Americans are repositioning and forgot to tell them. Consultancies The most detailed reference to links between some consultancies and espionage was made by a former founding CIA officer, Miles Copeland, in his book The Game of Nations written over twenty years ago. In this, he wrote: […]

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] to acquire a recorded, snapshot of London suburbia – mums with asthmatic children, office-workers with sports injuries, those with libido problems – i.e. low level authentic voice espionage. (A by-product of the wicked sanctions and travel restrictions imposed on Iraqis for over a decade, was that the US/UK were denied such information.) 3 I […]

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Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] For example, some had been recruited into the so-called ‘Main Rouge’, a counter-terrorist organization created by the French secret service (Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre- Espionage (SDECE), to eliminate the FLN’s support network in Europe and prevent supplies from reaching rebel forces in Algeria.(80) Others had provided services for the army’s 2nd […]

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MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] (p and p included) from BM Box 4769, London WC1N 3XX; cheques payable to Larry O’Hara. Since 1945 MI5 has had three main domestic targets: Soviet bloc espionage, the British Left and the IRA. With the Soviet target gone, and the British Left of no consequence for the foreseeable future, all that remains of […]

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There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

The Spycatcher’s Encyclopedia of Espionage Peter Wright Heinemann, Australia, 1991 The cover-blurb says this is ‘the rest of the story’. It feels more like the out-takes from Spycatcher spiced with a few more fragments of interesting gossip. And I do mean fragments: the interesting bits of 260 pages — largish print and much white […]

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Baghdad’s Spy: A Personal Memoir of Espionage and Intrigue from Iraq to London

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] 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, of a life led under cover. To […]

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The Faber book of Espionage

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

ed. ‘Nigel West’ Faber and Faber, London, 1993 The title isn’t to be taken seriously. This is 610 pages of short extracts from some of the books written by British MI5 and MI6 personnel, with short biographical sections by ‘West’. Some of this is quite interesting — lots of it was new to me — … Read more

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