[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
