Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] fireplace, champagne was served but the prince did not drink. ‘How come no-one has written a book about the Safari Club?’ Midolo asked. He didn’t want to spook him by asking about Holden straight away. ‘Oh, bits and pieces have come out in various books,’ Turki replied with a smile. ‘The Egyptian journalist Mohamed […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] was Peter Ricketts, later knighted, and chair of the Joint Inteligence Committee 2000-01 and the UK’s first National Security Adviser 2010-12. After a long career in the spook world, his final diplomatic posting was the most agreeable position as Ambassador to Paris (see ). He is now Visiting Professor at the Department of War […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] do not. This treaty wasn’t signed by mistake: the Home Office was warned about it six years ago by a committee of MPs who 6 In ‘CIA spook says Megrahi was freed before appeal humiliated justice system’, 7 For further reading, try Paul Foot’s 1994 essay, ‘Taking the blame’, in the London Review of […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] fireplace, champagne was served but the prince did not drink. ‘How come no-one has written a book about the Safari Club?’ Midolo asked. He didn’t want to spook him by asking about Holden straight away. ‘Oh, bits and pieces have come out in various books,’ Turki replied with a smile. ‘The Egyptian journalist Mohamed […]

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