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

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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[…] 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.22 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written or 21 22 Extracts are at . 7 by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.23 […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] 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.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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.21 Cryptome.org has published extracts from that memoir written by Metrokhin and co-author Professor Christopher Andrew.22 They include this: The KGB’s most valuable asset […]

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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