Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] sense of the word that you can possibly imagine.’ Which is not a denial at all. And what about the section on the late Jack Jones, qua KGB agent. Andrew writes: ‘Oleg Gordievsky later reported that Jones had been regarded by the KGB as an agent from 1964 to 1968.’ (p. 536) ‘Regarded as […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] ILP and was an enemy of the Communist Party. His was thus an improbable name on the list of labour movement figures who had allegedly helped the KGB supplied by former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky. See Gordievsky pp. 286 and 7. 17 ‘At least since the foundation of the International Affairs Department, TUC staff […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] involved Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian publisher go-between who was secretly a KGB agent and who stole the huge sum of money (some $3m by today’s value) that Iraqi intelligence paid into a Hong Kong bank account. The KGB […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] But I could be wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever from Moscow Centre of any service that David Holden or even Leo Silberman performed for the NKVD, KGB or GRU and this fine book shows that Gillman and Midolo did tap all the best sources; the defectors Oleg Gordievsky and Oleg Kalugin, and the […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] But I could be wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever from Moscow Centre of any service that David Holden or even Leo Silberman performed for the NKVD, KGB or GRU and this fine book shows that Gillman and Midolo did tap all the best sources; the defectors Oleg Gordievsky and Oleg Kalugin, and the […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world — including the Communist Party of Great Britain. There really was ‘Moscow Gold’ in there after all, and KGB gold at that. Confirmation of this at the British end came from senior party figure Reuben Falber, who looked after the Community Party of Great Britain […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] that the Warren Commission verdict was right: Oswald did the shooting. On top of which, despite the CIA’s input, he tried to persuade the reader that the KGB were (somehow) involved. The strange thing about the book is that, despite a large team of researchers and the enormous resources of the Reader’s Digest, Epstein […]

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