Trust no one: the secret world of Sidney Reilly

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] Sidney Reilly is still encountered in Sunday papers on a fairly regular basis, in the same way and in a similar category to the Mitfords, Wallis Simpson, Philby and T. E. Lawrence. Beyond the legend, Spence confirms that Reilly was probably one Solomon Rosenblum, from Tsarist Poland, who arrived in the UK, aged 21 […]

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Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, […]

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007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] service, who warned Maclean via Burgess. This person was referred to as ‘the Third Man’. Burgess had been living 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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] been compiled by 1960 at the latest, to judge by the stated career of an MI6 officer responsible for journalist assets. It may well have come from Philby. Philby worked for The Economist and The Observer in the Middle East until his defection. He had been suggested to The Economist by G.K. Young with […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

Lobster Issue

[…] it is a comprehensive account which should be included in 104 serious study of these matters. LOBSTER has also been a frequent source of stories related to Philby and the Cambridge spies. Issue#16 has an interesting discussion of the possible role of Lord Rotl1schild in this regard, as seen by tl1e press, and authors […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1943-44. Second is Gertrude Bell – the precursor of T. E. Lawrence, who was stationed in Arabia two years before him (and who worked with St. John Philby – the father of Kim Philby). The third was, somewhat predictably – but still revelatory in the background detail69 – Margaretha Zelle (a.k.a. Mata Hari).70 Unnecessary […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear of exposure as a onetime NKVD agent with the attendant risk […]

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