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... piece in the 'Londoner's Diary' in The Evening Standard following the exposure of Anthony Blunt said that "Rothschild himself is known among the cognoscenti as the First Man." (5). Auberon Waugh in the Spectator (14 June 1980) had written a half-serious article titled 'Lord Rothschild is Innocent'. Revealing the links between Blunt, Burgess and Rothschild, Waugh added, with tongue in cheek: "Any suggestion which might be implied that Lord Rothschild could even have been under suspicion by MI5 as a Soviet agent or witting concealer of Soviet agents is so preposterous as to belong to the world of pulp fiction. Quite apart from anything else, Mr Heath would scarcely have ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-01.htm
... damaged. Riley touches on this theme but doesn't develop it. Did the Soviets utilize this embarrassment factor and to some extent orchestrate the political fallout over a thirty year period? And did they depend on a predictable British reaction, the cover-up, to self-inflict longer term political damage? Some sections of the British right seemed to believe so. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951 after Maclean was pinpointed by a Venona decryption as agent Homer. Burgess didn't have to go with him, he wasn't suspected. Burgess's defection then threw suspicion on Philby, however. In an injuncted book some years ago,The Last Temptation, Donald McCormick attempted to hint (he couldn't give her name) ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 74 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-13.htm
... ITV1) had crime novelist Patricia Cornwell revealing the results of her own inquiry into Diana's death;( [7]) while in the evening the final episode of series four of Spooks (BBC1) included a convincing explanation of how MI5 could have engineered the crash.( [8]) The coroner On 18 December 2003, Michael Burgess, H.M. Coroner for Surrey, confirmed that inquests on Diana and Dodi would open on 6 January 2004: Diana's inquest was to be held at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in the morning, with Burgess acting as the Coroner of The Queen's Household; Dodi's would be held that afternoon at Reigate with Burgess acting as H.M. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 48 - 01 Jun 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue51/lob51-21.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 26) December 1993 Last| Contents| Next Issue 26 Deadly Illusions the first book from the KGB archives John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, London, 1993 Yet another reheat of the interminable stew of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean et al, this time spiced up with material from the KGB archives. Yes, the KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today.... today it certainly makes a striking contrast with dear, declining Britain, where MP's may not even ask parliamentary questions about MI5 and 6. On the front cover is the legend "The KGB secrets the British government doesn't want you to read ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 28 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-20.htm
... . 112) 'He would have been the obvious choice [for] removing communists from MI5 (p. 124) 'There is another pointer to Hollis's collusion with the Communist Party' (p. 124) 'Hollis also took the view, it seems' (p. 125) 'Hollis would have known that there was already a file on Burgess...' (p. 129) 'Must have been clear to Hollis' (p. 140) 'Hollis would clearly have agreed (p. 144) The next chapter, 'The Great Mole Hunt- From Burgess and Maclean to Spycatcher', turgidly regurgitates what has been written by other people about this area, and introduces ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-17.htm
... hopeless security risks- from important Government jobs. One of the Yard's top-rankers, Commander E.A. Cole, recently spent three months in America consulting FBI officials in putting finishing touches to the plan....The Special Branch began compiling a 'Black Book' of known perverts in influential government jobs after the disappearance of the diplomats Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, who were known to have pervert associates. Now comes the difficult task of side-tracking these men into less important jobs- or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time the specter of espionage was never raised. It may be argued that the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-02.htm
7. Re: [Lobster #48 (Winter 2004)]
... includes accounts 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 also covered, with almost ninety members of the intelligence community listed. Many of these had other occupations – John Henry Bevan( 'intelligence officer and stockbroker'), Maurice James Buckmaster( 'intelligence officer and businessman'), Tomas Joseph Harris( 'artist, art dealer and intelligence ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-23.htm
... ] in 1935 because...' What possible reason can there be except that he was serving the Soviet regime? Cornish contends that Wittgenstein recruited the Trinity College spies and, while recognising that the evidence he adduces does not amount to conclusive proof, he makes an overwhelming case for rejecting the assumption that it was an Englishman who persuaded Burgess, Philby and Blunt to work for the Soviet Union. The author is an historical detective with a wide knowledge of philosophy, who excels at tracing the threads of complex cultural and political networks. When Wittgenstein returned to Cambridge in 1929 his reasons for doing so were obscure, but his years at Trinity brought him into contact with the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-16.htm
... 'Study Group' is a group of British academics working in spook country, and how widely they are willing to release their newsletter is unclear. The first issue is rather good, containing a survey of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, M5 4WT, UK, to whom inquiries should be addressed. Freedom Research is an anonymous 'montly summary of the activities of UK based organisations supporting Marxist "1iberation ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-07.htm
... argued that the trio were set up, especially as the other participants in the indecent activity were allowed to go free after turning Queen's Evidence. Gunn goes along with this, but also suggests that Montagu was imprisoned partly as a sop to the USA, who wanted the Foreign Office to make an example of someone in the aftermath of the Burgess and Maclean defection, and partly because Anthony Eden was convinced that Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying the smouldering ruins of Nettlefold Studios, supposedly torched by the CIA in an attempt to demonstrate to the FBI that it could carry out acts of sabotage with the best of them ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-19.htm
