The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (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 […]

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 […]

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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 See […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Flight conspiracies might well be described as historians, albeit with qualifying adjectives. John Costello, 1943–1998, author of Ten Days that Saved the West,2 with expensive access to KGB files in Moscow, was described as a ‘freelance military historian’. Peter Padfield, 1932–2022, author of three books on Hess, all surmising that Hitler knew that Hess […]

In The Thick of It: The Private Diaries of a Minister by Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] Booth. 1 Taxation Poses to Liberty’, actually has our two authors seriously describing the Inland Revenue as ‘the moral equivalents of the Stasi, the Gestapo and the KGB’. The way forward is the ‘liquidation of the State’, although interestingly they are extremely wary with regard to the National Health Service, acknowledging that there is […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[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 […]

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[…] laws about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for […]

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