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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Times followed their tiny ‘scoop‘ with a version of three other familiar ‘British conspiracy theories’, as they put it, about Wilson. The Times sections are italicised A KGB plot One conjecture connects Harold Wilson to the sudden death of Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a […]

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 […]

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 […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] began ‘naming names’ in his several books and in the magazine Covert Action Information Bulletin. Moran’s account of Agee’s ‘defection’ relies heavily on the memoirs of the KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin.2 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.3 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] which he began doing (in an underground public toilet) before he and his wife had even checked in to their hotel. A plan better designed to draw KGB attention can hardly be imagined and such attention was duly forthcoming. This was in the form of an officer who Burgess calls simply ‘Oleg’, who materialised […]

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