More views from the bridge

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] on 20 August 2001 Gorbachev attributed the coup to a wire-tapped conversation he had with other Soviet politicians in which he proposed removing the head of the KGB and Minister of Defence.(7) Which sounds a good deal more like the world we know. Remarking on the reports that John Smith’s widow had been put […]

Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, the belief in the all-conquering guile of the KGB…… Leo Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House […]

Moscow on the Hudson?

Book review
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

[…] Romanovs’ trying to turn the clock back and America speeding it forward (or, feudalism versus capitalism); corporations having rights as individuals, an individual having absolute right; the KGB, the CIA; rule by elites, one by decree, the other in a popular vote; ever-expanding territorial land grab towards their Pacific and Arctic meeting points; destinies […]

Lundy, and, Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] disinformation for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for […]

Ronald Gray (1920-2008)

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] Bookdealer, ‘we can supply anything you want on espionage, and much more.’ Over the years, he did! Hammersmith Books provided books to many customers world-wide, including the KGB ‘illegal’ Gordon Lonsdale, who, when he was in Winson Green Prison, began to write a definitive assessment of what SOE had actually achieved in World War […]

Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] the video, also called ‘Fascist Terror Stalking America’, Marrs claims that the video shows ‘a solid connection between the Gestapo of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the Cheka and KGB of Stalinist Russia, and today’s fascist New World Order. Fascists such as Stalin, Hitler, Clinton and Reno have no conscience and feel no more remorse for […]

Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. ( KGB: the Inside Story pp. 336-341) Neither refers to Stewart Steven’s book, Operation Splinter Factor (London 1974, 76 and 78). Steven’s book is also about Noel Field […]

Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] making concessions to the Palestinians. On the evidence presented by Chamish this is about as accurate as saying that JFK was murdered by Oswald working for the KGB. Chamish shows in some detail that the Rabin killing was a variation on the Sirhan Sirhan attack on Robert Kennedy. Yes, Rabin’s ‘assassin’ was firing at […]

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 […]

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 […]

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