A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] Abadan’, Churchill explained to his Foreign Secretary, Eden, ‘none of these difficulties……..would have occurred’.(27) (The reference was to the British action at the town of Ismaila, in Egypt in January 1952. After an assault by Egyptian rebels on a British military base, Britain occupied the town of Ismaila, surrounded the police headquarters and then […]

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] research. Although it is unclear to what use they were put, AEC documents show isotopes were sent to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, the UK and Uraguay. In response to my inquiry, the British […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] for important data rather than attempting to acquire the data itself’. Did Guillaume in fact take any secret material?(18) Brandt returned to Bonn from a visit to Egypt on the morning of 24 April 1974 to learn that Guillaume had been arrested as a spy in the service of the GDR. Although initially there […]

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

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] CORPS 16-17 ASSISTANT MILITARY ATTACHE THE HAGUE 19-29 BELL’S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD. 29-++ PRESIDENT BELL’S ASBESTOS AND ENGINEERING LTD. BIDDLE, ROBIN 1950s ARMY SERVICE FIELD SECURITY EGYPT, GERMANY 55-59 POLITICAL OFFICER ADEN PROTECTORATE -65 HAYTER SCHOLARSHIP -80 SEC./LIBRARIAN MIDDLE EAST CENTRE CAMB. BINGHAM, MAJ. SEYMOUR 1918 ARMY 18-33 USA -33 HOLLAND DIRECTOR BRYNEEL […]

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The History of Espionage

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] with Newsday, and author of many previous books on spying, Volkman knows the subject and his text is well written. Since the author covers events from ancient Egypt to post-9/11, what we get are illustrative chapters and treatments of some well known (and some little known) incidents in the history of the subject. This […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] also used one of its other agents, formerly Iraq’s oil chief Abdulla Ismal, for undermining activities. Presently, BIS is activating a whole series of undermining activities in Egypt and Syria. Using its position in Syrian emigration circles and the closeness of the former Syrian politician Salehh Dzeddi, the BIS has during recent months alone […]

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The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] the sensory deprivation methods of interrogation were a ‘spin-off’ from it. Second, the new methods have not supplanted old-fashioned torture, especially when it is being outsourced to Egypt, Syria and Jordan. The old and new methods continue to be used alongside each other. And third, the sensory deprivation methods he describes were used by […]

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Londonistan: How Britain is creating a terror state within

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] state of Palestine, which was on offer in 1936, 1948 and 2000, and could have been established at any time between 1948 and 1967 by Jordan and Egypt. The agenda here remains the extermination of the Jewish state itself. The reason is that the Jews are hated, the hatred is rooted in religion, and […]

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The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] in this capacity created the Imperial War Cabinet by adding Dominion Prime Ministers, notably General Smuts. After the war, as Colonial Secretary, Lord Milner negotiated independence for Egypt, self-government for Malta, and was involved in the arrangements for self-government for India (1919) and the partition of Ireland (1921) These then were the politicians of […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] worthy cause that is managing to do something that has been prayed for by young Arab and Muslim intellectuals since the early days of the Wafd in Egypt – the expulsion of the West from their lands, Caliphate or not. It is only a matter of time before Muslim insurgency brings the war into […]

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