The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994)

[…] an FBI informant and a CIA or Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) agent; but he was also working for the communists as a double agent of the KGB or GRU! Russell proposes that, having been sent to the USSR as part of a phony ‘military defectors’ programme run by the CIA or ONI, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] sponsor of groups called the Committee for Christian Aid to War Prisoners and Committee for Justice and Trade which were working on behalf of German war criminals. KGB shot the Pope (not) A pretty large frisson of excitement ran through sections of the Western media on 1 April (!) at news reports that East […]

Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]

The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] which killed FRELIMO founder Mondlane and ANC member Ruth First were probably the work of their own people; she describes the ANC’s Joe Slovo as a “ KGB Colonel”; and gives a long account of the deterioration of the Mozambique economy without mentioning that RENAMO, with overt support from South Africa and covert support […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] Charles Krauthammer of The New Republic; Princeton historian of Islam, Bernard Lewis; Jeanne Kirkpatrick, Reagan’s UN ambassador and leading AEI figure; Claire Sterling, the promoter of the KGB plot to kill the Pope story in the Reader’s Digest and elsewhere, and Norman Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary magazine and his wife, Midge Decter, executive […]

…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993)

[…] I mean, the perception among students in those days, or the perception of students was that they were likely to be talent spotted and recruited by the KGB, for instance. And therefore some students were put through a kind of sheep-dip to see if the KGB approached them. They were dressed up to look […]

Wallace Clippings planted on Chapman Pincher

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

Just for the historical record, these rather faded cuttings from the Daily Express are just two of the stories that Wallace planted on Chapman Pincher while working in Information Policy. By Chapman Pincher the man who gives you tomorrow’s news -today THE SECURITY forces in Northern Ireland are facing a serious threat from American ex-Vietnam … Read more

Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this period, and that I was one such. For MI5, 1977, the year I left the party, was crucial: as Shayler has stated, they […]

Rothschild, the right, the far-right and the Fifth Man

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] which, it is true, could not be produced in a court of law. But then neither could Solomon’s as she made it clear she was frightened of KGB retaliation.There is a further problem with Solomon’s tale – or, perhaps, with Peter Wright’s telling of it. Wright records her talking to Arthur Martin during her […]

Bits and Pieces

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] reputation for physically abusing suspects, especially Arabs, to obtain confessions. A joke that made the rounds told of a competition between agents from the CIA, the Soviet KGB and the Shin Bet to see who could most quickly capture a deer in the wild. The CIA agent entered the forest and returned three days […]

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