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 British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

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[…] Remember this is 1978. Sections of the British secret state, the British military and the CIA believed that the recently resigned Prime Minister Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great […]

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 […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, was suspicious; and when a KGB officer, Anatoliy Golitsyn, defected and announced that Goleniewski was a false defector, Angleton’s doubts were confirmed. At which point it all got very strange and very […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] the two books by Craig Unger on Trump’s links to Russia.22 Unger’s main source (in the more recent book) is one Yuri Shvets, who is an ex- KGB officer – having quit in 1990 and then defected to the West three years later.23 If Mr Shvets is to be relied upon as to 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco’s police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down to: who are you going to work for? The Yankees or the Dodgers?” See, for example, David Black’s ‘On getting it wrong […]

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 […]

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[…] came from a Soviet disinformation operation.26 This is true. But as Garrick Alder commented: ‘The Permindex story appeared well after an emissary from RFK had met with KGB man Georgi Bolshakov and (through him) told Krushchev that RFK believed that (unnamed) US domestic opponents had killed JFK.27 Also, and more importantly, it appeared well […]

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