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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 28) December 1994 Last| Contents| Next Issue 28 The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent Don Bateman I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party, a leading light being Ted Willis- later Lord Willis. I saw much of the CP in action in Leeds and met many of their members. Harry Newton was born in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 234 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-09.htm
... George. 'People were selling information, selling hostages, selling their rings, selling their clothes, selling letters, trying to make money out of the hostage business.'(1) They were also selling drugs. At the same time North was profiting Iranian heroin traffickers by negotiating arms-for-hostage deals with them, he was also dispatching US drug agents with wads of cash to pay off anyone- including other drug traffickers- who claimed to know the whereabouts of the American captives in Lebanon. North's operation was the disastrous culmination of a long history of ties between federal drug enforcement authorities and various arms of US intelligence, including the CIA. Like the Federal Bureau of Narcotics before it ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 225 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-03.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 30) December 1995 Last| Contents| Next Issue 30 Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet secret agent? Andrew Rosthorn An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as 'the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy' for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome's work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, Ramsome is not here to sue Rupert Murdoch for libel. But many of the children who fell in love with the 11 classic sailing stories, beginning with Swallows and Amazons ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 219 - 01 Dec 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue30/lob30-08.htm
... , the safe-house (wired for sound), the oxy-acetlylene equipment (to cut into the explosives store) and the dud explosives placed in the store (which hadn't contained any explosives for years) .( 10) Despite this, the judge rejected defence claims that the INLA members had been entrapped and that Daly had been working as an agent provocateur.... It is clear from the witness statements of Daly and various police and MI5 personnel that the decision to expose Daly was taken very early on- and taken against Daly's wishes. (11) In other words, as the defence lawyer suggested at the Old Bailey, the operation was conducted the way it was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 149 - 01 Jun 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue27/lob27-08.htm
... CPGB? Perhaps through their penetration of the CPGB, though the knowledge of the money was held very closely within the Party. [For more on this see my review of Christopher Andrew's The Defence of the Realm below.] Perhaps through Morris Childs, the American Communist Party's link with the Soviets, their bagman, who was an FBI agent. On Childs see, for example a summary of the major book on this subject at <http://findarticles.com/p /articles/mi_m1282/is_n4_v48/ ai_18111844> and see also< www.theatlantic.com/doc/200207/ garrow>, an essay by David Garrow who first discovered Morris Childs' role with the FBI. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 143 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-069.pdf
... 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 G has heard of Lobster but the KGB bit was just a little smear from Mr G's current sponsors. Crozier gets first bite The present burst of G-exploitation false-started in 1993 with Brian Crozier's memoir, Free Agent. On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as 'confidential contacts' of the Soviet embassy and 'fellow travelling MPs'. Crozier had been told of their role as 'confidential contacts' by a 'senior KGB defector in London'. That can only ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 132 - 01 Jun 1995 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue29/lob29-07.htm
... struck like a hungry bass" and landed in Havana in 1959, just as the first Russian freighter was arriving. Fairly early on Beck's narrative begins to resemble the 'Get Smart' TV spy spoof. He dresses up as a tourist and hangs around the docks with his Brownie, in the bar of the Hilton, and at a travel agents' convention which appears more like an international gathering of secret agents all getting pissed together. CIA stations carry our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 103 - 01 Jun 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue08/lob08-08.htm
8. Spooks [Lobster #41 (Summer 2001)]
... reason. 'What is it all about? Well, I and Sir Teddy Taylor (a British Member of Parliament) are trying to force the British government to investigate two murders that the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) were directly responsible for. They are the "Bulgarian Umbrella" murder of Georgi Markov in 1978 (a British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. Both murders are related to the failed KGB coup in Moscow in August 1991, with which I was fairly directly connected. A large file exists which gives the evidence for all this in considerable detail. There is now a copy of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Jun 2001 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue41/lob41-22.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 43) Summer 2002 Last| Contents| Next Issue 43 Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave Paul Routledge London: Fourth Estate, 2002, £16.99 In Lobster 39 (p. 23) I reported the snippet of information from a recent biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were...well, anything from ideologically unreliable ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 102 - 01 Jun 2002 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue43/lob43-44b.htm
... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 32) December 1996 Last| Contents| Next Issue 32 Miscellaneous Are raw prawns pink? Fun and games Down Under where a great brouhaha developed over allegations that Australia's most famous- and left-wing historian, the late Manning Clark, was a Soviet agent. It started when the Australian poet Sid Murray reported that 26 years before he had seen Clark at a dinner wearing the Order of Lenin, one of the Soviet Union's highest honours. This factoid, plus the previously revealed fat ASIO file on Clark going back to the 1950s, was enough for a number of Australian papers to allege that Clark was a KGB agent. The Herald Sun ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 99 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-25.htm
