Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
[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 68 (Winter 2014)
[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 84 (Winter 2022)
[PDF file]: […] informed me that this is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
[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 […]