Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ to General Shlomo Gazit 4 former head of Aman, Israeli military intelligence. Le […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan Police […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as a taxi-driver, waiter or similar.’ 8 See, for instance: ‘Election 2019: Arron […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). of deep reporting. We learn, for instance, that a CIA staffer in Mexico City served in the OSS (the CIA’s precursor) with an agent Julia McWilliams, best known to millions as the celebrated chef Julia Child’. Deep reporting? Big deal! Dean’s concluding paragraph: ‘There is enough uncovered here to give […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] time, Rolando Cubela (AMLASH) was meeting his CIA case officer in Brazil to discuss the assassination of Castro.9 As some CIA officers suspected, Cubela was a double- agent, informing Castro of his CIA contacts. This may explain why Castro chose the Brazilian embassy to deliver his message to Kennedy, a double entendre that was […]