John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] file on her late father and tries to show that Joseph Frolik and other Czech spooks in London were simply exaggerating – or inventing – agents and espionage activities to claim expenses they hadn’t incurred. In her reading of the documents, the StB officers in London ate their way round the fine dining rooms […]

Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Office, Hugo Swire, has stated that he would ‘actively welcome’ and ‘do everything to facilitate’ that. Apparently it’s still up to Ny. (Yes, her alone.) She’s said to be thinking about it. Bernard Porter is a retired Professor of History and author of Plots and Paranoia A History of Political Espionage in Britain 1790-1988 (1989).

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[…] He lunged towards RFK firing his pistol. A little more Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 42 or 43 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 44 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]

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[…] defence establishments throughout the country – Latimer House at Amersham, for example. The lectures were on a variety of subjects, including European history, ‘post-war’ economics, subversion, policing, espionage and counterespionage. These are the names of the lecturers Sanderson recalled when writing the first version of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are […]

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[…] Knew too Much . 32 See, for example, . 33 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 34 11 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move from Robert Kennedy […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] Knew too Much . 19 See, for example, . 20 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 21 or 22 23 7 Daniel Finkelstein on RFK’s assassination It was inevitable that a member of our political commentariat would move […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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, […]

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[…] Knew too Much 6 . See, for example, . 7 Not sure which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 Health and Social Secretary Wes Streeting said, after announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next […]

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