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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.2 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.3 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which he began doing (in an underground public toilet) before he and his wife had even checked in to their hotel. A plan better designed to draw KGB attention can hardly be imagined and such attention was duly forthcoming. This was in the form of an officer who Burgess calls simply ‘Oleg’, who materialised […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] as he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, wherein he indicates that Oswald was a KGB agent. Mr Epstein wrote a long piece, ‘Reading Oswald’s Hand’, about his analysis of the Historic Diary manuscript for the magazine Psychology Today in April 1978. […]

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[…] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, was suspicious; and when a KGB officer, Anatoliy Golitsyn, defected and announced that Goleniewski was a false defector, Angleton’s doubts were confirmed. At which point it all got very strange and very […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the two books by Craig Unger on Trump’s links to Russia.22 Unger’s main source (in the more recent book) is one Yuri Shvets, who is an ex- KGB officer – having quit in 1990 and then defected to the West three years later.23 If Mr Shvets is to be relied upon as to the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

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