Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] used by Harold Macmillan. This is the sub-theme in Verrier’s account of the Penkofsky affair in his Through the Looking Glass;12 and it recurs in the British spy literature of the post-war years, from Ian Fleming to John Le Carré. The power of this myth was illustrated recently when, asked how Britain’s tiny SIS […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] bombers only did things that made them look like possible bombers with……. likely spies, or in the case of Junaid Babar, through contact with a known American spy. At each point they connected to something that might be called Al Qaeda, they connected through likely spies and at each point that this happened there […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] forces soldiers some of whom, following their regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] during the late 1980s and early 1990s, becoming an inside informer on the violent far-right group for Searchlight magazine and Special Branch.38 A case of the burned spy becoming a handler. The Mormon Church and U.S. Intelligence agencies. The current American government has made much of their successes in obtaining the release of U.S. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] would be a good cover for keeping an eye on radical students and others. I am paranoid. But am I paranoid enough? A character in a recent spy novel says: the basic truth of conspiracy? If it can be imagined, then someone’s already tried it.29 This may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] to Latin America in ‘How Allen Dulles and the SS Preserved Each Other’ in Covert Action Information Bulletin No 25 . 79 E. H. Cookridge, Gehlen: the Spy of the Century (New York: Random House, 1971) pp. 287-288 80 Peter Collier and David Horowitz, The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty (New York: Holt, Rinehart and […]

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