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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] like a Dame Pressure from the royal household, Mohamed Al Fayed and Number 10 have been cited as reasons behind the decision of the Royal Coroner, Michael Burgess, not to hear the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed. Following a flurry of speculation, the former President of the High […]

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Was the Director of Central Intelligence a Soviet agent?

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] Donald Maclean – a rising star in his own right – was fingered by the U. S. government’s code breakers. Maclean and his too loyal friend Guy Burgess took the ferry to Calais, thence the train to Moscow, leaving Philby implicated, but not convicted, and intelligence services all over the Western world looking over […]

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PR, espionage and language

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 […]

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The View from the Bridge

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 […]

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Web Update

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. […]

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SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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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 […]

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A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

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