Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] in his Deception (1989). And this account does nothing to clarify what was going on when a CIA officer, Jamieson, offered the Reader’s Digest access to the KGB defector, Nosenko. 1 The definitive account of the workings and failings of the Warren Commission is Gerald D. McKnight, Breach of Trust (University Press of Kansas, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]