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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] consists of, Madsen describes someone as CIA because they were so named in the 1968 Who’s Who in the CIA, published by East German intelligence (or the KGB). Madsen does not want to acknowledge the book’s provenance and tells us that the book was published in West Berlin. This book is well known enough […]

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]

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 […]

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[…] 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]

L0b 92 Bridge 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 […]

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