Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Historical notes on the war in Ukraine

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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, […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] politicians, dodgy businesses and Mafia bosses, all propped up by increasingly repressive military and security establishments looking to Moscow rather than Brussels and Washington. Putin, a former KGB officer unwilling and unable (it is said) to escape from the secretive and authoritarian mindset typical of that organisation, has embarked on an attempt to recreate […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] leaked him top secret information about U.S. foreign and military policy. In 1957, during a visit to the Soviet Union, the influential pundit was lured by the KGB into a homosexual ‘honey trap’ and photographed in compromising positions at Moscow’s Grand Hotel. At the urging of his friend and neighbor Frank Wisner, former head […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] sudden disappearance of civil servants Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, both of whom possessed key intelligence secrets. The fact that Maclean was suspected of being a Soviet KGB spy and was about to be arrested by MI-5 was a closely guarded secret and something that Burgess was unaware of. So they must have been […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and is supported by the world’s off-shore banking system. Toby Sculthorp, who referred me to the book review, commented: ‘the thesis that a very small group of KGB officers have been able to rebuild the modern Russian state. So we have a political scientific model that posits that a powerful intelligence cabal – in […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] He continues: ‘…….Over the years, pretty much everyone Jack Kennedy offended, and everyone Lee Harvey Oswald met, has been accused of involvement: the FBI; CIA; ONI; the KGB; Cuban intelligence; anti-Castro Cubans; the mafia; White Russians; the KKK and NSRP.’ Who is missing from the list? Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, one of the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his identity and I found it unlistenable. 1 ‘Don’t forget that this prime minister went straight from a NATO summit to an orgy hosted by a former KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 […]

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