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: […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]