After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] rescue this by claiming Hoon was investigating plans to use motor-racing fuelling systems in military helicopters. The Independent, 4 August 2003 Baker p. xvi Baker quotes ‘the KGB assassination squad’: ‘Anyone can commit a murder but it takes an artist to commit a suicide.’ Baker p. 340 Baker p. 213 Baker p. 298 Baker […]

Spooks

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] British double agent tricked the Bulgarians into murdering him) and the murder of the newspaper owner Robert Maxwell in 1991. Both murders are related to the failed KGB coup in Moscow in August 1991, with which I was fairly directly connected. A large file exists which gives the evidence for all this in considerable […]

Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] it on promotion. It is significant that neither MOD nor the security services prevented that transfer. p. 160 ‘Clockwork Orange attempted to link the IRA with the KGB and other foreign intelligence agencies supplying weapons and explosives. Wallace, for example, had the task of planting a false story that a submarine had been seen […]

Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] by the Leyland deal. He secretly forced the Canadian prime minister Lester Pearson to promise that Canada would not make any similar trade deals with Cuba. The KGB chief in Washington, Aleksandr Feliksov, reported this to Moscow Centre on May 20, 1964, warning that President Johnson appeared even more intolerant of Cuba than the […]

Spooks UK

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] 5th August 1983)…… Arthur Martin, ex MI5, won substantial damages against the Daily Telegraph for articles that appeared in 1983 alleging that he might know of a KGB mole (Guardian 17th February 1984) …. Peter Hennessey (Times 30th April 1984) lists the Cabinet Office Intelligence Committees. Besides Margaret they are either chaired by Sir […]

Private Warriors

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] base. But it is hard work. Just as the animal rights people and the eco-warriors are not really an adequate substitute for MI5’s loss of the the KGB and GRU, so narco-terrorism and North Korea – barely able to feed its population but apparently about to rain missiles down on the US – are […]

Brands and Britannia: Some aspects of national image and identity

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] addition, should al-Qaida’s brand person, Osama Bin Laden die, the brand succession is now secured. Russia The inconsistency of the British and American brands is something former KGB officer, now President Putin of Russia, has played for all it is worth.(19) In his bid to remain at the top of Russia’s political machine – […]

Operation Brogue

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] a scandal involving Irish Justice Minister Doherty. Information on the CI surveillance was leaked to the press and Doherty had to resign and CI was purged. Two KGB men in the Irish Republic, Salines and Lippasov, who knew about this, were hurriedly expelled from Ireland. The purged CI people took their files with them […]

The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] memoir. Keston College is not mentioned by Mr G either, even though keeping an eye on its activities was one of his jobs while working for the KGB in London. Keston College is the Centre for the Study of Religion and Communism. It was mentioned occasionally, for example in Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters, […]

The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] he had been anyone other than Mountbatten it is almost certain that he would not have survived our positive vetting tests. He was the perfect target for KGB blackmail. … Maybe he was the best of patriots but he gave us every reason to believe that, patriot or otherwise, he was highly vulnerable. We […]

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