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... village. In attendance were some famous names from London society of the fifties and sixties, and two men in regulation dark suits from an undisclosed department of the Security Services. They had been contacts for the deceased, Maria Novotny, who made headlines in the sixties through her 'relationship' with President John Kennedy, and her involvement in the Profumo affair. Novotny's own accounts of the two episodes have tended to be dismissed, and reasonably so, as they appeared in the sensationalist press. (1) But one man, Michael Eddowes, took her very seriously indeed, claiming to have spent over $100,000 of his own money following up leads generated by her story ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 109 - 01 Nov 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue02/lob02-02.htm
... by his faltering reply to questions concerning Cockburn. Connections between Hollis and Cockburn are therefore eagerly sought after as evidence of Hollis' supposed treason. Such a little nugget landed in West's lap. In the summer of 1963 Cockburn took up an offer from Richard Ingram to edit a special edition of Private Eye. It was the height of the Profumo Affair which, coinciding with Cockburn's decision to put greater emphasis on politics in the satirical magazine, propelled Private Eye into mass circulation and national prominence. The format has stayed pretty much the same for the last twenty-seven years. Alan Brien, who worked with Cockburn on Private Eye, wrote to the Spectator to inform West that whilst working ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 55 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-03.htm
... COULD NOT REACH [FBI?] REP THIS MORNING. [British] STAND READY ASSIST IN ANY WAY POSSIBLE ON INVESTIGATIONS HERE. What were the 'similar phone calls of strangely coincidental nature persons received in this country over past year, particularly in connection with Dr Ward case'? We know of the call in the Stephen Ward/John Profumo case that kick-started its public exposure,(2) but were there others, and what were the calls not connected with that scandal about? Of these we know nothing. I did some desultory research into the Cambridge call back around 1980 and spoke to a number of journalists who were working on the Cambridge Evening News in the early ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 40 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-02.htm
... say.' From this West daws this astonishing conclusion: 'His view that the arrival of Mao was the equivalent of Russia's winning China chimed exactly with Burgess's line, that Mao was the leader of a Russian-style Communism on a strict Leninist analysis, only carrying it one stage further.' (p. 214) In the section on the Profumo Affair, West states:'[Stephen] Ward was being used by MI5 but, more importantly, the fact that he was introduced to Ivanov in the way that he was establishes that if Hollis arranged it then he did not tell his junior officers in MI5.' (p. 222) (emphasis added) 'If Hollis ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-17.htm
5. Re: [Lobster #48 (Winter 2004)]
... there are unfortunate individuals such as Captain Robert Nairac (simply described as 'army officer') and Stephen Ward( 'osteopath and scapegoat'). The entry for the latter is one of the few where the author eschews the studied objectivity of the majority of the work, his final paragraph reading: 'Ward was in fact incidental to the Profumo episode: he was a sacrificial offering. The exorcism of scandal in high places required the façade of his conviction on vice charges.' The entries are scrupulously researched judging by the wealth of references on offer in the footnotes. These cover not simply books and journal articles, but also written, film and sound archives. There's also ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 15 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-23.htm
... few months of the relationship Colin was still in jail, doing the final year of six he served for a manslaughter he didn't do, and Steve, who had made the initial contact with him via Fred, was doing the corresponding (which in those days meant letters). Then Anthony Summers invited Steve to co-author a book on the Profumo Affair this meant serious money, and Steve and I were both poor and Steve began working with Summers and I took over the correspondence with Wallace and Holroyd. A couple of months later I wrote Lobster 11, an account, really, of our attempts to understand what Colin and Fred had told us about Northern Ireland and covert operations ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue56/lob56-35.htm
... #55 (Summer 2008) Issue #56 (Winter 2008/9) Issue #57 (Summer 2009) Clandestine Caucus (1996) About Lobster Subscribe See also...© 2001 Lobster Contents| Cover Image The Assassination of John Kennedy: An Alternative Hypothesis Robin Ramsay From Prague With Love: Maria Novotny, Michael Eddowes, Profumo and Kennedy Stephen Dorril Decoding Edward Jay Epstein's 'Legend' Robin Ramsay PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation THE LOBSTER is a journal/newsletter about intelligence, para-politics and so forth. This is an atypical issue. No 1, which covered British Intelligence operations in Northern Ireland, the work of the Round Table, recent events surrounding the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Nov 1983 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue02/index.htm
... side of Aitken is connected to his curious self-abnegation towards Arab royalty from whom, after circa 1976, he was making huge amounts of commission brokering arms deals. But, on the other hand, the Tory MP- public schoolboy- sexual deviant/fetishist figure is scarcely fresh news. Didn't we hear all about this around the time of Profumo? The authors make a big noise about the general immorality of the arms trade and arms manufacturers. What they don't probe, in any great depth, are Aitken's unorthodox political connections. He was co-director, with Gerald James, of BMARC (the shippers of 'arms to Iraq'). Readers of James' memoir will remember him ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 14 - 01 Dec 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue36/lob36-17.htm
... trade-union leaders from Britain and Europe to discuss tactics of disrupting industry throughout Europe in the ensuing five years'. Steve Dorril adds: There is one little gem in Wright's book which is worth noting. On p. 93 Wright reveals that the Director-General of MI5, Sir Roger Hollis, deliberately destroyed a document before the Denning Inquiry into the Profumo Affair. This showed that Hollis had tried, via the Cabinet Secretary, to enlist John Profumo's help in an entrapment operation of the Soviet diplomat, Eugene Ivanov, in July 1961. Tony Summers and I speculated that this was the case in Honeytrap but had no evidence. Hollis misled Denning-- easy enough-- and Prime ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 13 - 01 Jun 1992 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue23/lob23-12.htm
... " By coincidence- or not- a close friend of Dunbar was the painter Hal Woolf (who did know Harris) who himself died in very mysterious circumstances on 23 November 1962 (On which see Private Eye 9 August 1963). The case became a cause celebre and remains unsolved. Interest was heightened because Woolf had connections to the Profumo Affair and because his wife had been a friend of Guy Burgess. Daily Express 7 December 1986 Molehunt: the full story of the Soviet spy in MI5, Nigel West (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London 1987) p 85. Through his solicitors Rothschild did issue a writ against West but later withdrew it deciding "since the whole book ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 11 - 01 Jun 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue16/lob16-01.htm
