[…] Israel officials Lord Pickles and Lord Polak: ‘In any other country the conduct of Eric Pickles and Stuart Polak would in my view be seen as entrenched espionage that should prompt an inquiry into their conduct.’ (Alan Duncan, In The Thick of It p. 61) Pickles and Ed Balls are co-chairs of the UK […]
[…] Knew too Much . 66 See, for example, . 67 Have forgotten which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 68 22 part of his piece in The Times on 10 December to RFK Jnr, Sirhan Sirhan and the RFK assassination. This […]
[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, […]
[PDF file]: […] of the private company NSO and those of Unit 8200 is illustrated by a Unit 8200 cyber development called ‘Flame,’ described thus: . . . state-sponsored cyber espionage malware that circumvented anti-virus programs and remained undetected between two and five years. Aimed to map Iran’s computer networks and monitor computers of Iranian officials, it […]
[…] 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. 52 or 53 Reviewed in Lobster 89 by John Booth at or . 54 See ‘The BlackRock letters: inside Labour’s “close partnership”’ […]
[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]
[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 […]
[…] 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”’ […]
[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]
[…] 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”’ […]
