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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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[…] 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”’ […]

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 . 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 […]

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 . 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 […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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 […]

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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 […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[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 […]

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