Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)
[…] Reader’s Digest article, ‘The Plot to Kill the Pope’, a little later marked the start of a concerted US-based publicity effort to blame the outrage on the KGB through the so-called Bulgarian Connection. (1) The author of the Digest article and many other pieces blaming the rise of international terrorism on the Soviet Union […]
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 […]
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 […]