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. […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

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. […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] Evidently he hadn’t seen my comments on Joesten five years or so ago. Viz: There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] ago. Viz: There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run 6 See, for example, . 7 See . 8 9 10 2 by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New […]

View from 93

Lobster Issue

[…] seen my comments on Joesten five years or so ago. Viz: 1 2 1 There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] he has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] – and what little was then known about the murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] 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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