Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] operation into motion. Each time, however, it seemed as if the usual unofficial sanction was not entirely forthcoming. From impounded arms shipments to stern warnings from the Intelligence community, the plot seemed doomed. Indeed, 2 See Christopher Kinsey, Corporate Soldiers and International Security: The Rise of Private Military Companies, (London: Routledge, 2006) pp. 46-49. […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: Inside British Intelligence 100 years of MI5 and MI6 Gordon Thomas London: JR books, 2009, £20 Spooks The Unofficial History of MI5 Thomas Hennessy and Claire Thomas Stroud (Glos.): Amberley, 2009, £30 Robin Ramsay I haven’t properly read either of these books and cannot really review them. However, there are some things I can […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] le Carré’s cunning plan? Andrew Rosthorn In the July 1982 foreword to his 1983 novel The Little Drummer Girl,1 John le Carré 2 thanked the Israeli ‘ intelligence fraternity’ for their ‘advice and co-operation’. The author (whose 25th spy thriller, Agent Running in the Field,3 was published by Penguin in October) offered ‘sincere thanks’ […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] NATO. Moreover, Trump was on numerous occasions openly sympathetic to Russia and admiring of Putin, even to the extent of ‘siding with Russia’s dictator over his own intelligence agencies’. (p. 58) Hitherto this would have been completely unthinkable, completely unacceptable to Republicans who would, without any doubt, have denounced such a president as a […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] Not so here, though various individuals are identified as the narrative proceeds. These are ultra-rich preppers – people who have considered climate change, population growth and Artificial Intelligence, and the consequences these – especially the last – may have for human existence on the planet. They also possess, in Rushkoff’s words, ‘the Mindset’. Namely, […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] emerges here is a pattern of one-time visits by persons considered to be close to President Trump. Both Nigel Farage and Dana Rohrabacher might be considered, in intelligence terms, as ‘floaters’ – assets The allegation of a longer term association betwixt Farage and Assange was made by Simpson in testimony before the U.S. House […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] that when a man has taken as many steps as possible to be identified as a woman, they are a woman. The famous Turing Test for artificial intelligence is probably the modern era’s best-known Nominalist concept. It isn’t concerned with whether a machine is really conscious and self-aware, only with whether it makes sense […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] you’ll get the fuller drift. Many of the ex-spooks are quite open about their past employment. Take, for example, Dr Gerhard Conrad PhD – Visiting Professor in Intelligence Studies who, ‘is a former senior member of the German Federal Intelligence Service (BND)’.7 Mr Keith Beaven, a Visiting Research Fellow, is more circumspect. His profile […]