The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] enemy of the United States?” NBC’s Kasie Hunt demanded of Ted Cruz. Replied the runner-up for the GOP nomination, “Russia is a significant adversary. Putin is a KGB thug.” To Hillary Clinton running mate Tim Kaine, the revelation that Donald Trump Jr., entertained an offer from the Russians for dirt on Clinton could be […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the KGB archives, working with former KGB colonel Oleg Tsarev to deliver in 1991 Ten Days That Saved The West, a book in which Costello supported Russian suspicions […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] as an adviser to political figures, governments and media outlets in the US and UK. He remains a believer in Cold War shibboleths such as that the KGB were running the unions in the 1970s. He is what C. Wright Mills would have termed a NATO intellectual, who also wrote for Encounter. Below I […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] these changes were not immediately explicable.1 4 If Mr Putin has a double (or more) the impersonation program could conceivably have begun during his time with the KGB during the Cold War. A Putin lookalike was photographed among a Soviet delegation to New Zealand in 1986. The Kremlin claims Putin was elsewhere at the […]

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Stone combines his decades of insider political ken with cutting edge JFK research to let you know what Richard Nixon, Henry Cabot Lodge, Barry Goldwater and the KGB all concluded: Lyndon Johnson orchestrated the assassination of John Kennedy.’ Nixon has not explicitly said this (and doesn’t do so here), merely hinted at it. Stone […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important historical event […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s secretary Evelyn Lincoln. KGB officer Oleg Nechiporenko. The KGB office in the USA. CIA officer E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] Knightley reports attending an historical conference on intelligence in Germany in 1994. I challenged a panel that included Sergei Kondrashov; his colleague the former head of the KGB Leonid Sherbarschin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important historical event […]

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