Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] also be subject to court approved warrants: Edward Snowden: Because, so again, it gets back to legitimate secrets and illegitimate secrets. Some spying from my perspective, ‘career spy’ is okay, right? Joe Rogan: Agreed. Edward Snowden: If you have hacked a terrorist phone, and you’re getting some information about that, useful. Joe Rogan: Agreed. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] 5 First, in a wonderful piece of no-spin spin, an interactive photo of Sir John in his speedos was officially released. Taken by his wife, it told spy chiefs in authoritarian countries that Britain is a civilian nation and its spies conform to its culture; it told taxpayers that Sir John is of, not […]

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[…] not be spotted by the Americans? Apparently so.) Penkovsky’s information is one of the few instances in the Cold War I can think of where what a spy did really mattered.75 Most of the time the so-called ‘intelligence war’ was more akin to Mad Magazine’s Spy-vs-Spy.76 72 A study in Foreign Policy states that […]

View from Bridge

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[…] Moscow in 2021, Burns told Russian 9 officials that any sort of operation that caused severe brain injuries for US personnel was out of bounds for Russia’s spy services, and that there would be consequences if Russia is shown to be responsible, according to people briefed on the conversations. The Times further reported that […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Marshall Plan, for example, over a year away in 1947; before even the March arrest of Dr Allan Nunn May and the revelation of the Canadian-based Soviet spy ring; and before Churchill’s American speech in which he first used the term ‘Iron Curtain’. 64 15 February 1948 that he dined with Christopher Warner, who […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] overseas defence commitments. Many resisted, but, as the author points out, by mid-1967: ‘There was no avoiding the conclusion that Britain’s global responsibilities were unsustainable.’ The ‘Soviet spy’ affair of 1971 certainly had potential to turn into a foreign-policy crisis. In the event, the Edward Heath government gambled that it would not and was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 5 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] have omitted information known to them which conflicts with their overall presentation of the so-called facts. I also suspect that they have edited commentary so that “The Spy” narrative can be maintained throughout. Ms Stonehouse does indeed show that this is the case. However, as she reports on her site: ‘Ofcom said they couldn’t […]

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[…] have omitted information known to them which conflicts with their overall presentation of the so-called facts. I also suspect that they have edited commentary so that “The Spy” narrative can be maintained throughout. Ms Stonehouse does indeed show that this is the case. However, as she reports on her site: ‘Ofcom said they couldn’t […]

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