Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the material was compiled by Victor Raikes and Anthony Courtney will raise eyebrows in some quarters. Both were prominent figures in the ‘40s and ‘50s, fiercely anti- communist and major figures in the Monday Club. Like many on the right they were 7 See Lobster 52. 8 See for Mosley and his recent connections […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] centre of those events was the product of a conspiracy theory, propagated by members of MI5 among others – that there was a serious risk from the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) to what, for want of a better cliché, we might call the British way of life. The survival of the CPGB […]

Misc reviews

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Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] the USSR launch its own initiatives for a new international order, designed to bring lasting world peace and prosperity. In 1989 Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, proposed a ‘common European home’. This replaced the ‘Two Camps’ doctrine, 2 which held that the world was divided into socialist […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay These reviews of mine were written for other publications, notably the Fortean Times. Who killed Dag Hammarskjold? The UN, the Cold War and white supremacy in Africa Susan Williams London: Hurst and Company, 2011; 300 pages, h/b, £20.00 After travelling thousands of miles, visiting many libraries and archives, interviewing the surviving eyewitnesses and […]

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