Knightley

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] against the advice of the UK Security Service, a truly shocking turn of events’. According to Steele they had also advised against Lebedev’s father Alexander, a former KGB officer and one time billionaire, being allowed to take over the Evening Standard newspaper; but to no avail. Britain has the dubious honour of being the […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] neo-fascist movement in Europe. In the CIA’s defence, it can be argued that in Africa (as opposed to Italy), the U.S. CIA is now responding to Soviet KGB manoeuvres on a grand scale, and not merely provoking them. This KGB threat has been used to justify the CIA’s strong involvement with Moroccan intelligence forces […]

The Atlantic and its Enemies: a personal history of the Cold War by Norman Stone

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[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 […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo p. 371 2 2 services Gillman and Midolo had scrutinised were innocent. The KGB was exploiting […]

Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

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