Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: […] politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] came from a Soviet disinformation operation.26 This is true. But as Garrick Alder commented: ‘The Permindex story appeared well after an emissary from RFK had met with KGB man Georgi Bolshakov and (through him) told Krushchev that RFK believed that (unnamed) US domestic opponents had killed JFK.27 Also, and more importantly, it appeared well […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] leaked him top secret information about U.S. foreign and military policy. In 1957, during a visit to the Soviet Union, the influential pundit was lured by the KGB into a homosexual ‘honey trap’ and photographed in compromising positions at Moscow’s Grand Hotel. At the urging of his friend and neighbor Frank Wisner, former head […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] wounded hundreds, there is nothing. He also writes on page 336 of the Red Brigades: ‘For Moscow, Italy was therefore a soft target.’ Meaning what? That the KGB were running the Red Brigades? Has anyone seriously tried to claim this? I looked for other ‘hot buttons’. On Allende: ‘Pinochet was said to have overthrown […]