007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 92

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 or 20 21 See, for example, and and . 22 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[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 or 20 21 See, for example, and and . 22 […]

View from 92 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

lob61-parish-notes

Lobster Issue

[…] things have come together. Firstly, it no longer seems as important. Other people are doing this, which they weren’t in the mid 1980s. (I just googled ‘ MI5’ and got 2.8 million hits.) Secondly, when Lobster began in 1983 I had just joined the Labour Party, and the events of the 1960s and 70s, […]

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