PR, Iraq and ‘the allies’

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, […]

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Spooks – U.K.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held by its left-wing is fundamentally correct. Coups, bugging, surveillance, wiretapping, Special Branch, moles – the first […]

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Spooks and the House of Commons

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

An interesting piece by Mark Hollingsworth appeared in Punch of 23 May-5 June 2001, ‘Spooks in the House’, on intelligence and security personnel who become MPs. Some of the material was familiar but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB … Read more

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Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the private/public sector title ‘public relations officer’ is a historic hangover from the days these were officers in government service. The same applied to industrial relations officers. Spook recruitment website advertised in The Times career supplement, 25 October 2007 The State of the Future survey by the world federation of United Nations Associations said […]

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Old spooks’ tales

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] new allegations, and alleged revelations about the post-war era, of any book I have read. However, many of these new claims are sourced to ‘interview with old spook’. Loftus (and co-author Mark Aarons) claim to have interviewed hundreds of elderly, unidentified, retired intelligence officers for the information in the book. Though this is deeply […]

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Spooks – U.S.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

12. Spooks – U.S. After the disastrous Iranian hostage operations, the Pentagon created a new intelligence/covert ops unit called Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA), also known, apparently, as “the activity”.  Augmenting both the CIA and the Pentagon’s own DIA, ISA existed for at least a year without Presidential/Congressional knowledge or approval. The unit is said … Read more

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

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special … Read more

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Spook-wise: MI6 and Clare Short

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

MI6 persuaded Clare Short, the Secretary of State for International Development, to task them to give her early warning about coups in Africa. (Independent 23 July 2000) MI6 now have a license to roam throughout Africa. The spooks must love having Labour in office, terrified to oppose anything they ask for. Hitherto secret Whitehall committee … Read more

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Britain to war; and c) Dr Kelly was murdered – overseas subtext, if even a Brit, and a prestigious member of the world-wide scientific community (presumably a spook target group) is treated so badly, how will I be treated? Facing reputational threat, and much else besides, the mandarins appeared not to know that in […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

A spook, moi? One of the formative experiences of my youth – and we’re talking early 1960s here, beatnik days, when wearing a narrow leather tie was pretty hip – was going to the Mound in Edinburgh on Sunday nights. The Mound is like Hyde Park Corner in London, a place where local by-laws […]

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