Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] – had there been any we would have heard about it – and Ireland-as-Cuba was simply an invention by those creative amplifiers of the ‘red menace’ at IRD. (Bloom does not mention IRD.) Bloom then tells us that Neave met Wallace three times and ‘Wallace was dismissed with £70 for his information.’ (p. 53) […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] more relaxed, with Roger Hollis recommending that he could be ‘left to his plays’. What of Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one th ird genius, one third blackguard and one third lunatic’, which seems pretty fair. His trajectory from Comintern agent to Cold Warrior is usefully documented, right up until […]