[…] selection of primary sources ranging from official archives in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Canada and the USA to private collections and even the records of the KGB (mostly used in the section devoted to the Hess affair). Costello’s assiduous pursuit of documentary evidence and his willingness, for the sake of historical accuracy, to […]
[…] conspiracy theory nutters. But that’s about par for the course in these fields. The examples of Soviet disinformation offered by Gordievsky from the 1980s in his book KGB were laughably incompetent, forgeries which would fool no-one and which had zero distribution as far as I know on this country’s left. And their incompetence brings […]
[…] when another Soviet source ‘Fedora’ notified the FBI that Jack Childs was about to meet with Soviet contacts. The FBI were worried that this might be a KGB attempt to determine whether the FBI knew about the Childs link in the CPUSA/Soviet financial affairs. In the end the rendezvous went ahead and nothing untoward […]
[…] that assassin Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.’ Accompanying this will be ‘a companion documentary special, with Bugliosi addressing myriad conspiracy theories, including those involving the Mafia, the KGB or Fidel Castro in JFK’s assassination.’ One hopes that Bugliosi is doing all this on a pro bono publico basis and eschewing what he terms the […]
[…] formal responsibility, as a condition of restarting normal diplomatic and trade relations with the West, but still denies actually doing it. On pages 210/11 he reports that KGB defector Gordiefsky told them the the ‘KGB rezidentura had……. taken steps to cultivate several highly-placed trade union leaders, among them Richard Brigenshaw, Ray Buckton and Alan […]
[…] is reviewed in Lobster 23, p. 35 (2) So, if two early JFK theorists are now hob-nobbing with the far right, a third was hob-nobbing with the KGB. For the late Ms Meagher, Van Wynsberghe tells us, wrote for an American journal called Minority of One. I confess that before this year I had […]
[…] these said we don’t know but I think we may presume, as the programme did, that they contained some version of Angleton’s suspicion that Wilson was a KGB agent. These letters must have had some weight in Thatcher’s decision to take the KGB agent nonsense about Wilson to Robert Armstrong, then the Home Office […]
[…] aftermath of the Watergate scandal that brought down President Nixon, the CIA was virtually paralysed in the most important domain: countering the spread of misinformation by the KGB. When President Jimmy Carter, who succeeded Nixon, appointed Admiral Stansfield Turner, the CIA fired some 400 Soviet experts, on the spurious ground that they were no […]
[…] the Nigerian Civil War, argued for two years that the real requirement was to learn something of the state of Nigerian politics, not the activities of the KGB. There was indirect opposition to Bevin in 1949, and to Eden in 1956….In Northern Ireland, from 1971 onwards, SIS officers came to believe that the Provisional […]
In this article I amplify and update my account of the crash that killed Diana, Princess of Wales, Dodi Fayed and Henri Paul which appeared in Lobster 37. Since it was written there have been a number of interesting developments – the publication of Trevor Rees-Jones’ book; James Hewitt’s impromptu recreation of the fatal car […]
