Search Results for: spook
The writer with no hands by Matthew Alford
Murder in Cairo
[…] 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 […]
Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003
A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.
[PDF file]: […] been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a crusty old spook confirmed the accuracy of these allegations that Lobster’s claims were taken seriously. This investigative breakthrough led to a short-term career working on Channel 4 news items […]
The meaning of subservience to America
[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 […]
Beaumont novel copy
[…] and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew when he was an undergraduate there. In this setting Beaumont – whether ex- spook or not – has written a very good, nicely written and gripping account of Sharman’s investigation of this network (and occasionally killing as the Russians try […]
View from the bridge
Lobster review: Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
A review of Lobster in Direct Action, Issue #16 Autumn 2000
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] times, that there may be a subtext we are not aware of. There are two obvious possibities here: Fraser threatened to reveal other paedophiles; Fraser was a spook. 10 11 12 5 investigation not to the Goddard Inquiry, which has the power to compel testimony from witnesses, but to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) […]