Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Israeli drones to President Buhari of Nigeria.6 One of the companies Barak was involved with was the data company Carbyne, ‘founded by former members of Israeli military intelligence’, which was seen as useful during the Covid pandemic for its ability to locate individual patients. ‘It was backed by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, […]

Underground Structures of the Cold War: The World Below by Paul Ozorak

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] ‘The US Army built a bunker in Ancon Hill in the Quarry Heights section of Panama City. It was used by US Southern Command, and included an intelligence centre. Other underground bases include tunnels at two antiaircraft posts and a bunker at Gordo Hill between Paraiso and Gamboa which were built during the Second […]

Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: ‘Damn you Keir Starmer’ Complicit: Britain’s Role in the Destruction of Gaza Peter Oborne London: OR Books, 2025, £11.99, p/b John Newsinger This is a tremendously powerful book, written with both a determined forensic intensity and a sometimes barely controlled outrage. Oborne, one feels, sometimes just cannot believe what is going on, the enormity of […]

Misleading Parliament – Appendices

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] sure that Wallace had been unjustly treated was that I had talked to my friend, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, Tony Cavendish, another senior member of the Intelligence Community was equally uncomfortable, as was Field Marshal Sir John Stanier. I knew them well, and wrote both their obituaries for the Independent. I heard you […]

Nixon’s Nuclear Specter by William Burr and Jeffrey P. Kimball

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] had any impact on their recipients in terms of altering their behaviour – not even the alarms triggered by the Able Archer exercise, which a lone Russian intelligence officer decided to ignore.1 Often these nuclear threats and alerts have been described as essential to US credibility. That magic word was also used in 2008, […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] in a hut on the Spanish side of the fence. The future Soviet double agent Kim Philby had also recently been in Gibraltar, serving as British counter- intelligence chief in Iberia. The simultaneous presence of Maisky and Sikorski in Gibraltar proved tricky for Mason-Macfarlane.15 He had negotiated in Moscow in 1942 to persuade Stalin […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] later I received a reply (on 1 See . plain A4 paper, signed with a wiggly line with no name beneath it) informing me that the Secret Intelligence Service has not disposed of human remains in the last 15 years. Encouraged, I wrote again, this time asking for the release of the Service’s internal […]

The Conversation

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the same time as Starmer was trotting out his five ‘mission statements’ in February, I was engaged in a discussion with a friend about the latest artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, ChatGPT. ChatGPT goes far beyond the now familiar ‘virtual assistants’ and chatbots one finds on many corporate websites, which rarely if ever answer your […]

Accessibility Toolbar