Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] the Thames – there has been very little sign of SIS. One ‘sighting’ was its condemnation of a BBC dramatisation of the early lives of Messrs. Blunt, Burgess, McLean and Philby: the dramatist was blamed for a sensitivity by-pass SIS itself had created.(12) Another was in the Careers Section of London’s Evening Standard when […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] Officer Minister, wrote of Bethell: ‘In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he may pick […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] and consequences of biological and chemical agents; public health readiness for biological or chemical incidents. Rollback of South Africa’s Biological Warfare program www.usafa.af.mil/inss/ocp37.htm Feb. 2001, by Stephen Burgess and Helen Purkitt; USAF Inst for National Security Studies. This monograph analyses the origins and development of the sophisticated CBW program, ‘Project Coast’ developed by S. […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] became part of British Cold War activities. Philby was important here, working from Istanbul. The Soviets of course were kept well-informed of these developments – Philby used Burgess in London to forward the information. The League had, in effect, ceased to operate by 1949 but Dorril traces the ways in which it fed into […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House of Lords boss, George Jellicoe, with insinuations that could but not remind him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in 1951… And it was these same “guardians of the nation’s security”, according to my Chief Whip, Michael St Aldwyn, […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] counter-coup’. (p. 344) The late George Brown, we are told on p. 356, was a ‘CIA source’. On the down side there is another endless account of Burgess and Maclean, Philby, Bunt et al, in whom I was never very interested. It might be bulging with new information; I just don’t know (or care). […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] suppress this (or was that also marketing bullshit?) — presumably for the handful of pages in which Bristow expresses his support for Peter Wright and (inconclusively) discusses Burgess, Philby, Blunt, Thomas Harris etc etc. For Bristow knew them all and harbours suspicions about Guy Liddell, Roger Hollis and David Footman. But that’s about all […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Smear! by Robert Cecil from the Winter ’92 issue of the Journal of Intelligence and National Security. To quote the biographical material on his book about Guy Burgess, A Divided Life (Bodley Head, London, 1988), Mr Cecil is a former Head of the Cultural Relations Department of the Foreign Office, and war-time intelligence officer. […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] as diverse as Rudolf Hess in Britain, the peace plots of 1940, and black magic circles in South Wales (those three all linked together, incidentally); Blunt and Burgess; Labour Party politicians, war-time diplomacy and the sexual habits of Mrs Simpson and a great many others; the rise of Ian Paisley, Kincora and John McKeague […]