The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[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 […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] he had attended 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 Sherbarshin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important historical event […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] are in control of the Labour Party! Part of the anti-subversion network took seriously claims from MI5 and CIA counterintelligence officers that Harold Wilson might be a KGB agent (though they had no evidence for this other than the suspicion of a Soviet defector). Thus among the network’s members there was the picture of […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] he had attended 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 Sherbarshin; 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 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] he had attended 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 Sherbarshin; 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 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] he had attended 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 Sherbarshin; former head of East German intelligence, Markus Wolff; and former head of West German intelligence, Heribert Hellenbroich, to name a single important historical See […]

A Spy Alone by Charles Beaumont

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] The material was to be dropped by plane in the area 23 Reams have been written about this specific subject, including Craig Unger’s American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (New York: Dutton, 2021) Mary L. Trump, The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding […]

lob86South of the Border

Lobster Issue

[…] The material was to be dropped by plane in the area 23 Reams have been written about this specific subject, including Craig Unger’s American Kompromat: How the KGB Cultivated Donald Trump, and Related Tales of Sex, Greed, Power, and Treachery (New York: Dutton, 2021) Mary L. Trump, The Reckoning: Our Nation’s Trauma and Finding […]

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