Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 173) As well as the history of histories, there is an interwoven narrative about the various services’ activities; so there is much about WW2 and Burgess and Maclean et al. Every now and then an interesting little snippet pops up. There’s this for example. SIS abandoned Passport Control Office as its cover for officers […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us through two big events. The first is […]

End Times: Elites, Counter Elites, and the Path to Political Disintegration by Peter Turchin

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been properly considered by Davies. Nor has he considered that the influence of John C Calhoun11 on neo-liberal theorists and politicians has never been greater (as Nancy MacLean explained in Democracy in Chains12) and is being played out in politics today. (Calhoun was the architect of the Civil War in America, whose repercussions still […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] HISTORY …………………………….203 JOURNAL OF C RYPTOLOGY ………………………………………………….. 203 JOURNAL FOR SOVIET MILITARY STUDIES …………………………..203 LIES OF OUR TIMES – A Magazine To Correct The Record ……………………………………. 203 MACLEAN‘ S ……………………………………………………………………………..204 MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE ………………………………204 MILITARY REVIEW …………………………………………………………………… 204 THE NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY ………………………………………. 204 NEW TIMES ………………………………………………………………………………205 OPEN MAGAZINE Pan1p1’1let Series ………………………………………… […]

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