The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Soviet operations and identified dozens of Soviet agents and officers. After he was forced to defect, a grateful CIA debriefed him for months, lent him to MI5, set him up in a nice, secure flat in New York with his mistress and gave him a large salary. But James Angleton, head of CIA […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at ‘brightnetwork’ (‘an early career platform that connects students and graduates with the opportunities, advice and insights they need to kickstart their careers’) hinted at such, saying ‘MI5 and MI6 may be different organisations, but we share the same goal’. See or . 1 See or . 2 3 See or 4 1 death […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in the late 1940s as President of the Board of Trade. Ah, Golitsyn! And if he did claim this, who would take it seriously? Some members of MI5 certainly speculated that Wilson might have been recruited by the Soviets on his trips behind the Iron Curtain – and had done so before Golitsyn’s defection […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[PDF file]: […] on the extraordinary detail in Common Cause’s 1974 Bulletins on the Communist Party of Great Britain, suggesting that such detail could only have come from Special Branch/ MI5 sources. On reexamining some Common Cause Bulletins in the early 1970s we noticed this cryptic sentence which seems to first appear in Bulletin 127 (p. 124): […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 14 government.15 Paragraph 61 appears to show that work to combat these kind of assassinations has been hampered by a recurrence of the traditional turf war between MI5 and MI6. (The same turf war that blighted intelligence operations in Northern Ireland for many years). ‘We welcomed this process, but questioned whether the Intelligence Community […]

The Man Who Played With Fire, and, The Man in the Brown Suit

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Played With Fire: Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin Jan Stocklassa, Seattle: Amazon Crossing, 2019, £13.15 (h/b) The Man in the Brown Suit: MI5, Edward VIII and an Irish Assassin James Parris (Harry Harmer) Cheltenham: The History Press, 2019, £14.00 (h/b) The Stocklassa book is about the killing of Olof […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1990s there was quite a bit about Gerry Gable in these columns, much of it centred round the so-called ‘Gable memorandum’, a letter he apparently wrote to MI5. Bell comments on this: For many years, Gerry was the target of allegations that he secretly worked for the security services. This arose from a memo […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] of books. Years later he discovered that the magazine was part of the U.S.’s psy-war activities in India. In 1975 he was invited to lunch by an MI5 officer to be informed that Mountbatten was unreliable and had on his staff a homosexual who was a commie. Nothing got reported.3 The great thing about […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] in Washington D.C. with his good friend Kim Philby, the British SIS liaison with the American intelligence agencies, and Philby knew that Maclean had become suspect and MI5 was closing in on him. Because of his close association with Burgess, Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three […]

View from

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[…] This includes allegations about the late Lord Mountbatten using at least one of the boys in Kincora. On past performance, Moore will have been under surveillance by MI5 and the British state will have been aware of the book’s contents. Wallace is a witness to MI5’s use of Kincora in the 1970s and is […]

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