The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] to be an SIS document, ‘A Proposed Statement to the NTS Leadership’, which, presuming it to be genuine, may have been given to the Soviets by Kim Philby or George Blake. Bower quotes a brief section from the same document. 115 116 Labour Research, January 1961, p. 10. 27 though unproven – the IRIS […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the course of the evening.14 What was Butler discussing with de Courcy and what did Butler talk about with the Duke of Alba? We aren’t told. Kim Philby noted in his My Silent War (1968) that the Spanish diplomatic bag during the Second World War was regularly accessed ‘. . . and from it […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the trade by the covert heroes of the Cold War, the people who had stolen the U.S. atomic secrets, who had worked with the Rosenbergs, Kim Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean. To the callow cadets they seemed majestic figures, beyond the reach of mere mortals . . . .’ 26 Washington Station is […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Head of Counter Espionage in MI5, was responsible for the internment of Maule Ramsay in 1940. Liddell was a friend of Guy Burgess and an associate of Philby, Blunt and other Soviet agents. One wonders if any of these pursued enquiries about Hess via Liddell in May 1941. 61 See . For more on […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German agents in a hut on the Spanish side of the fence. The future Soviet double agent Kim Philby had also recently been in Gibraltar, serving as British counter-intelligence chief in Iberia. The simultaneous presence of Maisky and Sikorski in Gibraltar proved tricky for Mason-Macfarlane.15 […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] duty of Commander Lionel ‘Buster’ Crabb. See . It has also more recently been revealed that Sinclair was responsible for a rather ‘old-school colonial’ defence of Kim Philby in 1955, when the yet-to-be-unmasked traitor was already under strong suspicion. See . being committed too precisely at this stage, the meeting should recommend that the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] I thought it would come out and I would get the chop.” Montgomery died in February 1988. Clay Shaw, in other words, had one-stop access to Blunt, Philby, Burgess and their milieu. Though there is no information that he met any of them, we know from Olwen Janson and others that he spent a […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the BAP Project (Lobsters passim) and now ‘chief adviser, editorial policy’ at the BBC. With the publication of the Richard Crossman diaries, the exposure of Kim Philby and the campaign for thalidomide victims to his name, the plaudits for Evans were undoubtedly earned, even if he was a founding member of the Media […]

Classified: Secrecy and the state in modern Britain by Christopher Moran

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Wilson followed this example. After the war we get accounts of the familiar controversies surrounding the publication of the diaries of Richard Crossman, Harold Wilson’s memoirs, the Philby ‘third man’ story and the ABC trial in the 1970s; a detailed account of the hassles generated by the trickle of books which began in the […]

I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] scenario in the US – the possibility 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 […]

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