Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] close friend of Charles Hernu – and like Hernu, a Mason. (Thus Hernu succeeded in keeping the DGSE under his Defence Ministry.) Marion symbolically removed the ‘Counter- espionage’ from the service’s title (up til 1982, SDECE: Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage), reining in a counter-espionage division that had clashed frequently in the […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] actions (37 pp.) GAO/OSI-94-2, November 1993. Examines 1) the need for information privacy in computer and communications systems, such as encryption, to mitigate the threat of economic espionage; 2) the development of cryptographic standards for the protection of sensitive unclassified information, and the policies of the NSA, DoD, National Institute of Standards and Technology […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British glossy magazine devoted to ‘cover ups, espionage, covert action’ duly folded after five issues. Which was two more than I expected. There just is no general interest in these fields in this country, […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] a report for Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (see www.epic.org). Europe The European Parliament may soon ratify proposals to modify international law to deal with international communications espionage, and to set up a temporary special Committee of inquiry (opposed by UK govt) to further investigate Echelon. These proposals, known as the Echelon resolution, drafted […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] and by 1955 had reached the rank of colonel and deputy chief of Glowny Zarzad Informacji, the Polish intelligence agency. His responsibilities included counterintelligence and foreign technical espionage. In April 1958 he contacted the Americans and began passing top secret information to the West. At Christmas, 1960, fearing that his cover was blown, he […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] hydrogen bomb. Spooks bending spoons There is a very useful and comprehensively documented (120 notes to 30 pages) survey of the literature on the attempts to find espionage uses for psi in chapter 10, ‘The Spook Circuit: Psychic Espionage’, of The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime, by Arthur Lyons and Dr. Marcello Truzzi […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] Mrs Thatcher’s ear that Gorbachev was on the level, and that she could ‘do business with him’. (A station chief as defector-in-place, Gordiefsky was the ultimate pure espionage coup.) In espionage literature this myth is most strikingly displayed by Verrier’s Through the Looking Glass (Cape, London, 1983). Pitched somewhere between the Sunday Express and […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] historical interest (Bay of Pigs, Cuban Missile Crisis, NSA Venona Prog, Satellite images, CIA reports and briefings); Declassified records (CIA, DIA, State dept, Nat Archives etc); Historical Espionage (eg Venona prog) and SIGINT (eg Bletchley, Enigma); Other historical docs (MI5 and SOE); Ames Affair; debates and controversy (eg CIA as economic spy, budget of […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] son, eh? (Are journalists in the British Higher Media cynical? Yes, but usually about the wrong things.) Nice one, John 2 The precise roles played by the espionage novelist, John Le Carre, in the real spook world have been a source of much speculation. In a U.S. TV interview on July 1 this year, […]
