Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

More, please In an account of his career as a writer of spy fiction (Guardian 16 November ’89) John Le Carré referred to the hostile reaction received by his (unnamed) second book, presumably The Looking Glass War: ‘Critics and public alike rejected the novel, but this time the spies were cross. And since the […]

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Secret Underground Cities, and, Secret Nuclear Bunkers

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Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

Secret Underground Cities: an account of some of Britain’s subterranean defence, factory and storage sites in the Second World War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 1999, £14.95 (sb) Secret Nuclear Bunkers: the passive defence of the western world during the Cold War N. J. McCamley Barnsley, Yorkshire: Leo Cooper, 2002, £19.95 (hb)   … Read more

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Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] about this area, and introduces nothing new of any substance. After 172 pages of non-starters we meet the chapter ‘The Director General of MI5 – Spyrnaster or Spy?’. This does not really address nor answer the question, but partially covers the Chapman Pincher Hollis-was-guilty and the Anthony Glees Hollis-was-innocent axis, without reaching any conclusion. […]

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PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] travellers ‘to watch out for foreign spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'(9); teaching models for schools: ‘Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions’; (10) and a […]

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Mind Control and the American Government

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] haunts the democratic nations. All the powers of the espionage empire and the scientific establishment have entered into an unholy alliance to evoke this spectre: psychiatrist and spy, Dulles and Delgado, microwave specialists and clandestine operators. Substantial evidence exists linking members of the American intelligence community — including the Central Intelligence Agency, the Defence […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] of individuals in the murkier fields of human endeavour. Over fifty spies are listed, for example, including historical figures such as ‘Parliament Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators – Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are […]

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