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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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: […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] LSD proselytiser Timothy Leary: Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to elaborate […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] LSD proselytiser Timothy Leary: Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to elaborate […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] LSD proselytiser Timothy Leary: Leary himself said in an interview with journalist Walter Bowart near the end of his life that he was working as an intelligence agent since 1962. “I was a witting agent of the CIA” which, he claimed, had recognized him as “an important national asset.” Asked by Bowart to elaborate […]

Dangerous Hero, and, Boris Johnson

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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. […]

The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] the ‘private armies’ of the mid-1970s. These were largely psychological operations to bolster the public perception of a climate of disorganization and impending 1 Brian Crozier, Free Agent: The Unseen War, 1941-91, (London: Harper Collins, 1993) p. 147. 2 Brian Crozier, ‘Crozier Disclosures,’ The Times, 8 July 1993. chaos along the lines indicated by […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] McGrath, Knox Cunningham, and Peter Montgomery and others make them relevant to the HIA Inquiry. The second redacted section is on pp. 49/50 and concerns a British agent – i.e. a civilian volunteer, not an intelligence officer – in Northern Ireland, James Miller. Miller gave evidence to the Saville Inquiry but was was identified […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] supply Saddam Hussein. These agents include the late Stephan Adolphus Kock, a former officer in the Rhodesian Special Air Service, consultant to the Midland Bank and putative agent of both MI5 and Mi6; and Sir John Cuckney, a former MI5 officer. Both died in 2008. The document also describes the actions taken by HMG […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] a favorable antitrust ruling 17 Liddy (see note 16) pp. 320-321. Liddy (see note 16), pp. 324-5; cf. E. Howard Hunt, Undercover: Memoirs of an American Secret Agent (London: W. H. Allen, 1975) p. 232. Liddy recounts some of this on video at . 18 19 Nixon, Memoirs (see note 5) p. 677. 7 […]

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