Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] outfit based in Belgium (Stevenson, 1983, p. 272). (See appendix on Interdoc.) This, of course, was before Ellis was accused by Pincher and others of being a KGB “mole”. The publisher is given as Tom Stacey but the book is catalogued by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s distribution service as “a Common Cause publication”. Stacey turns up […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] know about the CIA, it is highly improbable that CI organised such an event. Angleton’s interest in Oswald seems to have been part of his hunt for KGB penetration agents in the CIA. John Newman has argued recently that Oswald was sent to the Soviet Union in the hope that information he gave to […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: 1. The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] disinformation projects.1 What he omitted, of course, was that this AIDS nonsense was a response to the US disinformation at the beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: 1. The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: 1. The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: 1. The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons program. […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] claim that up. This post of his caught my eye. Asked ‘What surprises did American intelligence learn after the fall of the Soviet Union when Russia shared KGB information with the US?’, he replied: There were several: The most shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons program. […]

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Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] – James Angleton and all that. The received view of that episode is something like this: two Soviet defectors turned up in the US. The first was KGB officer Anatoly Golitsyn who arrived in 1961. Published accounts of the man vary enormously. Some take him very seriously indeed and regard him as the most […]

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