Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)
[…] are required by law to report on community, social, ethical, and reputation issues, they will, increasingly, expect their security consultants to wear them, too. This impacts on spook and ex-spook alike since, no matter how at arm’s-length their conduct, it can effect their clients’ balance sheets. The mistake the ex-spooks in the private security […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] weep for SIS’s humiliation.(7) However, to use the intelligence failures exposed by the illegal invasion of Iraq, as the excuse for its trashing is a travesty. Some spook definitions First some spook definitions: ‘Intelligence’ is knowing, for example, that this country’s head of state has a daughter named Anne. ‘Analysis’ is understanding why this […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)
[…] to the Arab populace would be an anathema to Israel. A bit like speaking Latin to the Reverend Iain Paisley. (14) It was another PR opportunity lost. Spook PR and Policing al-Qaida One reason why Prime Minister Blair could have added good manners to Britain’s arsenal in the fight against al-Qaida, is because the […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] means of knowing whether the organisation’s role is to search for capitalism’s buried bodies or be accessories to whatever crimes may be committed. As a former SIS spook himself, anything that the high profile Lord Browne says informs the citizen, including possible future SIS recruits. (6) Spook PR Meantime, in the face of unprecedented […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] tourism chiefs meet in the shadow of the fifth anniversary of 11 September to discuss why the numbers of overseas tourists to the US has dropped.() British spook heritage PR As part of their PR strategy, two of Britain s spook employers are producing certain bestsellers: public sector 100th anniversary accounts of MI5 and […]