Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were quietly removed. One reading of this would be as follows: 10 Attlee, too, went full term […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of losing 29 The critical dates in this theory would be the Vassall spy trial (October 1962), the disappearance of Philby in Beirut (January 1963) and the Profumo case (May-June 1963). The US Ambassador attended the Parliamentary debate on the latter in person and cabled back to Washington that MacMillan had become ‘an electoral […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] communists and communist sympathisers holding positions in the unions;121 and his administration was being afflicted by the espionage scandals of George Blake and Vassell – and the Profumo Affair which Macmillan apparently believed was part of a See or . The documents can be read there if you enlarge them. 117 118 See also, […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] striking CV – a lifetime of socially-aware political work, including being the Warden of Toynbee Hall. See or . 1 After he had to quit politics, John Profumo dedicated himself to charitable work with Toynbee Hall (much of it being while Donald Chesworth was Warden). See . or 2 3 2 the British labour […]

The secret library of Georges Armoulian by Anthony Frewin

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] FILM WITH STILLS! London: Lenny’s Books, no date . Duodecimo. 48pps. Printed card covers. Dr. Stephen Ward was the sinister osteopath at the centre of the British Profumo sex scandal in 1963…… Lovejoy, Bevis WHAT WAS YOUR WIFE, GIRLFRIEND (OR, COME TO THAT, MOTHER) DOING IN THE 1960S? DID SHE APPEAR IN A SLEAZY […]

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