The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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