Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] some of the gossip about these – and some of it may have been deliberate attempts at setting hares running, as would always be the case in espionage – wasn’t conflated later with a supposed detailed foreknowledge of Hess’s flight. It could, for instance, have been the case that the message about Hess trying […]
Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] of the British state’s attempts to enforce its ‘everything official is secret’ legislation – run through the House of Commons before WW1 during a panic about German espionage – and its subsequent modifications. Before WW2, in practice the state was willing to clobber little people – e.g. the novelist Compton MacKenzie who revealed a […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] had also had an affair with Dulles.24 CIA penetration of the Luce media empire itself had reached something of a height during Clare’s Rome mission. Harry’s own espionage entrée came in 1953, when he assisted the CIA by helping to bail out the cash-strapped Partisan Review with a donation of $10,000. With Harry’s approval, […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see note 2), esp. pp. 116-121; Bernard Porter, Plots and Paranoia. A History of Political Espionage in Britain, 1790-1988 (London: Routledge, 1989), ch. 10; and Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: the Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: 4th […]