Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] when Marion was returning from a CP Central Committee, or an even more important one abroad. He drew from this the conclusion that Bert was ‘the resident’ agent of the Soviets and Comintern. Of this story I was sceptical at the time for, according to the evidence of Soviets who had defected, it was […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] will not at a stroke address other fundamental problems, such as conflicts of interest inherent in the system – e.g. the intelligence services combining the role of agent, while commissioning agents’ services, while being advocates for individual agents, while being a commissioner of services – but it will be a start. In the meantime, […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] suggestion of a putative ‘strategy of tension’ in Britain; and (c) for the mischief-making by SB. Loose-knit groups like Class War are a gift for any state agent manipulation and there is evidence – the Pat Daly case for example, discussed in Lobster 27; or parts of O’Hara’s first two pamphlets – to show […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] worked as a salesman in a hi-fi shop in Tottenham Court Road in December 1978 when the KGB officer Viktor Alekseevich Oshchenko spotted him as a potential agent and recruited him. After Oshchenko returned to the Soviet Union in 1979, Mr. E was handled by another KGB officer, Yuriy Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (later expelled from […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)
[…] needed specific associations are less inclined to put themselves forward. In addition, the use of the word risks linkage with other spook employers: a courageous former British agent who worked inside the IRA has warned that he was ‘dumped’ by the security forces. ‘When you are no longer of use, they leave you high […]