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[…] sent to the Soviet Union in the hope that his presence would produce a reaction within the KGB which would be echoed in some way by its agent within the CIA, thus identifying him. This presupposes that the KGB or its agent within the CIA would be sloppy enough to reveal its interest in […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the Drug Wars – How Billions of Illegal Dollars Are Washed Through Banks & Businesses (Chicago: Probus, 1992) p. 121; Reuters, February 11, 1992 (testimony of DEA agent Thomas Telles); Albert (see note 12) p. 368; Ron Chepesiuk, The Bullet or the Bribe: Taking Down Colombia’s Cali Drug Cartel (London: Bloomsbury, 2003) p. 104. […]

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[…] for murder because he knew something potentially embarrassing See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 13 ‘Forbidden history: CIA censorship, The Invisible Government, and the origins of the “deep […]

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[…] Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 1 2 See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 3 3 give up one of her central beliefs, despite evidence which falsified it. […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] have a background in British military intelligence, specifically as a producer of studies of mass psychology, which he has described as: ‘Nothing fancy. I wasn’t a double agent or . . . whatever. My job was to predict civilian response to hypothetical scenarios.’2 While Steel tells demonstrable and damaging lies whenever it suits him, […]

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[…] Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 1 2 See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 3 3 to give up one of her central beliefs, despite evidence which falsified […]

Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] immediately interned as an enemy alien and subsequently deported to Germany in 1946. Her detection led to the exposure of a German spy in the US codenamed ‘Agent Crown’ (a.k.a. Guenther Rumrich). MI5 passed information about him to the FBI, who duly unearthed his network.1 This led to the first of two major cases: […]

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[…] Story (London: Sedgwick and Jackson, 1978). 1 2 See, for example, David Hart’s note to her at . Brian Crozier devotes several chapters of his memoir Free Agent (London: HarperCollins, 1993) to his work briefing Mrs Thatcher on ‘the threat’. 3 3 to give up one of her central beliefs, despite evidence which falsified […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] In other words it is merely undocumented assertions. Some of which are striking. For example on p. 9 he describes the late Donald Chesworth as a Czech agent. If so, he is not worthy of mention in Christopher Andrew’s The Defence of the Realm, as close as we have to an official history of […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the most important of these Russian agents was Jack Jones, general secretary of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, who had been ‘identified as a paid Soviet agent since the mid-1930s’. (p. 40) For some reason, Bower lets Michael Foot, or agent ‘Boot’ as he was known to Daily Mail readers, off the hook. […]

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