Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] withdrawn, and this has happened, in the same case, to several associated files. Ironically, the contents of the file were a copy of one discovered in a KGB archive, which is freely available. It seems clear that what is being protected is less to do with security, but more to do with the official […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] wounded hundreds, there is nothing. He also writes on page 336 of the Red Brigades: ‘For Moscow, Italy was therefore a soft target.’ Meaning what? That the KGB were running the Red Brigades? Has anyone seriously tried to claim this? I looked for other ‘hot buttons’. On Allende: ‘Pinochet was said to have overthrown […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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[PDF file]: […] The Spy and the Traitor (2018) in which he exhumed the discredited story that the (then safely dead Michael Foot) had been paid some £1,500 by the KGB in the 1960s. The revival of this story came in plenty of time for the 2019 general election and was guaranteed to excite the right-wing press.2 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] for money laundering, something that would once have proven irresistible to his investigative instincts. He is also completely unmoved by the Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB colonel and onetime dollar billionaire, being allowed to buy the Evening Standard in 2009. Britain is, it is fair to say, the only liberal democracy where […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was back in Moscow six days later. Ironically, […]