The Octopus: Secret Government and the Death of Danny Casolaro

Book review
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] trace its origins back to a group of spooks, led by James Angleton, who wanted ‘revenge for the notorious Albanian operation which had been compromised by Kim Philby’. At the rear of the book there is a Casolaro chronology in which ‘The Octopus’ is suggested as being involved in almost every major parapolitical event […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] more famous (and infamous) episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] more famous (and infamous) episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] more famous (and infamous) episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on Philby was the beginning of a career in which he has repeatedly brushed up against the secret warriors of […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] compiled by 1960 at the latest, to judge by the stated career of an 30 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 11

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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