Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his 3 See . notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] either the same plot, or a parallel one. He also brought documentary evidence with him: mainly his notes, made at the time. Both these sources were tainted. Wright had his grievance over his pension, and a general air of “flakiness”; and Wallace had just completed a gaol sentence for a manslaughter charge which he […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Wilson plots’ story – and in some ways an extension of it – is Peter Sanderson’s account of ‘the British Gladio’ in Lobster 81. Alas, no Peter Wright figure has turned up since then to persuade the major media that Sanderson’s account should be taken seriously. *new* Israel and the media Do have a […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] cover-up of the Contras/cocaine connection is, like Webb’s 1996 exposé itself, not conclusive – but it’s there. Blunt in Hesse O ne of the puzzles Peter ‘Spycatcher’ Wright said he never solved in the hundreds of hours during which he interrogated unmasked Soviet double-agent Sir Anthony Blunt was the precise nature of Blunt’s mission […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions […]

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