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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 6) November 1984 Last| Contents| Next Issue 6 Who's afraid of the KGB? As a number of people have pointed out, in the first 5 Lobsters- something like 100,000 words- there has been hardly a mention of the Soviet and Soviet satellite intelligence activities. There are reasons. No-one has offered us anything on this subject, and neither of us (ie Ramsay/Dorril) know much about it. What little there is in the British press is almost exclusively the routine nonsense of espionage- expulsions and counter expulsions. The recent great brouhaha about Oleg Bitov rather makes the point. What did we learn? ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 220 - 01 Nov 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue06/lob06-06.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 55) Summer 2008 Last| Contents| Next Issue 55 Philip Agee, the KGB and us Philip Agee died in January this year. Reading the obituaries I came across the allegations that he had gone to the KGB with his information about the CIA, something he had always denied. There is this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: 'In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans...The Cubans' ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 215 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-29.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 52) Winter 2006/7 Last| Contents| Next Issue 52 In camera injustice Michael John Smith Those who remember my case will be aware that in 1992/93 I was portrayed as a major KGB spy, featuring on the front pages of several national newspapers. My name later appeared in The Mitrokhin Archive, as did Melita Norwood – the 'Granny Spy' – but unlike her I have been largely ignored by those commentating on the history of espionage in the UK. In this article, I would like to familiarise Lobster readers with some key elements of my case, and to raise questions about the official Prosecution account. I maintain ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 177 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-11.htm
... , background noise, and I wasn't paying too much attention; I didn't take notes- not even to write down his name. In his search for information on....whatever it was, this journalist had been to see Mr G. Upon learning that the journalist was also going to ring me, Mr G told him that the KGB were big fans of Lobster. Told this, I laughed. Later I thought, 'How does Mr G know this?' Mr G defected in 1985, around the time of Lobster 6, and it seems very unlikely to me that the KGB would have come across something as piffling as the then Lobster. I'm flattered that Mr ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 173 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-07.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 33) Summer 1997 Last| Contents| Next Issue 33 The KGB Lawsuits Brian Crozier Foreword by Sir James Goldsmith The Claridge Press, London, 1995, £12.95 One of the odd things about the James Goldsmith Referendum Party gambit in the recent election is the way the mass media collectively chose not to refer back to the last great Goldsmith campaign- his hunt for the Red Menace in the late 1970s.(1) Then as now Goldsmith saw himself as the saviour of the nation and put his money where his mouth was.(2) He funded some of Brian Crozier's operations, created Now! magazine, giving a platform to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 158 - 01 Jun 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-13.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 5) August 1984 Last| Contents| Next Issue 5 Golitsyn One of the recurring sub-themes of the literature on intelligence systems in the West in the past decade has been the status of the claims made by KGB defector Golitsyn. Until recently all the book-reading public knew about Golitsyn was (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that the divisions within the Communist bloc were a device to mislead the capitalist states in the West; and (c) that the KGB had achieved high-level penetration of all the West's intelligence services. Golitsyn's views ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 153 - 01 Aug 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue05/lob05-07.htm
... Who Owns Agca? The Time of The Assassins: The Inside Story of the Plot to Kill the Pope Claire Sterling, Angus and Robertson, London 1984 The Plot to Kill the Pope Paul B. Henze, Croom Helm, London 1984 These two books cover the same ground, more or less, and have the same thesis: the KGB used the Bulgarians, who used Agca to shoot the Pope. Sterling's is much the more impressive of them, better documented, more detailed and just generally more convincing. Henze's is thin, padded out with barely relevant material (80 pages on previous Soviet calumnies, for example). Maybe Sterling just had more time- Henze published ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 138 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-01.htm
... have most of this from the horse's mouth. Pincher describes, without quoting directly from, a report, probably originating with MI5, on surveillance of Wilson during January and February 1974:" ... concern about his pro-Israeli stance... anxieties that a new Wilson government might increase trade with Russia, leading to greater opportunities for KGB activity in Britain.... would enforce reductions in the Secret Service... (the report showed) strong political overtones showing that the author... was opposed to Wilson's re-election as Prime Minister." (90) Colin Wallace's account of this period states that the disinformation campaign referred to above, included spreading a ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 113 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-08.htm
... to it. Richard Deacon's The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state and right-wing outlets to attack CND, ecologists, socially committed clergy etc. etc., and the master brain behind them all, the KGB. As sources Deacon cites: The Centre for Conflict Studies in Canada, erstwhile base for Maurice Tugwell, the first head of Information Policy in Northern Ireland. (See Lobster 16). Tugwell's activities as a Director of the Canada-South Africa Society are described in Top Secret No 1/89. MARA: Mid-Atlantic Research Associates, Inc ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 94 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-06.htm
... We only talked about stories with Portuguese interest. No interest in a story about a British spy. Until that is, a few days ago I called Igor in Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor Oschenko, who was said to be his Soviet controller. Igor Prelin, who was the spokesman for Vladimir Kryuchkov, the KGB leader behind the failed coup of August 1991, told me that he knew ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 91 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-04.htm
