[…] 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 […]
[…] its brother publications. Beyond its unabashedly anti-establishment tenor in general, LOBSTER is anti-intelligence services in particular; those of the West, not the East. The Soviet Union, the KGB and the Eastern Bloc countries (when they existed) are largely ignored. The main focus is on the “bad” MI6 and MIS, with the CIA close behind, […]
[PDF file]: […] Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck’. He was the subject of ‘Revealed: How Sir Thomas Legg the exes axeman lost his wife to a guitar-playing ‘ KGB suspect’ . See also ‘Expenses axeman Sir Thomas Legg “inspired TV’s Judge John Deed love feud plot”’ at asked Sir John Scarlett, retiring chief of MI6 […]
[…] SIS Chief Maurice Oldfield, told me that when they heard of the assassination, his circle assumed it had been done by the CIA. In other words, the KGB didn’t manufacture this thread and Garrison’s investigation was merely the beginning of it. There is a vast amount of research on the CIA-dunnit thesis of which […]
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] government and especially in the final 40 pages, a number of points are made. It emerges that Ken isn’t really left-wing at all. We learn that the KGB looked at him in the ‘80s and concluded that he wasn’t a Trotskyist. When he was mayor of London the mayor of Berlin concluded that none […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
