Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the names of the agency and had Nighy as MI5. And nobody in the editorial process noticed. (To most viewers it would make no difference, of course.) Spy versus Spy W e have had a lot of tribunals recently. One that has received little attention in the UK is the Smithwick Tribunal in the […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1961, though, MacMillan seemed in serious disarray, badly behind in the polls and widely mocked by many of the UK intelligentsia. There is also evidence that the spy scandals of 1962-1963 caused many in the US to finally lose patience with their British allies.2 9 Coupled with the emergence of Wilson as the next […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zur Lippe-Biesterfeld at Jena in Information on Commander Cohen is available at . 3 See the AP news feed story ‘Lid blows off spy ring in Swiss capital’, The Straits Times (English-language newspaper in Singapore) 16 June 1957 at or 4 See Thomas Riegler, ‘The State as a Terrorist: France […]

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