The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] claimed that in the 1970s Josef Josten, head of the Free Czech Information Service, had passed a list of KGB agents to him revealing a London-based Soviet spy circle. These came from Czech defector Josef Frolik.2 3 Teacher observed that in February 1979, two weeks after Thatcher’s election as Conservative leader, a House of […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] forces soldiers some of whom, following their regular service, can be found in the small permanent staff of the Territorial Army special forces regiments. 13 The ‘rogue spy’ Richard Tomlinson passed selection for 21 SAS before he was recruited to MI6 (his account of this process forms a large chunk of Chapter 2 of […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] their alliance with the Saudis and the Americans. The British had tried to derail the Sunday Times investigation and covered everything up, to avoid yet another Cambridge spy scandal. And the CIA still pretended it knew nothing about it.4 Stanley Bonnett, born in London a few months after Holden, had volunteered for the Royal […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] would be a good cover for keeping an eye on radical students and others. I am paranoid. But am I paranoid enough? A character in a recent spy novel says: the basic truth of conspiracy? If it can be imagined, then someone’s already tried it.29 This may be an exaggeration but perhaps not that […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] 75.The Monday Club held a conference on “subversion” in 1970. Speakers included Charles Lyon, ex-FBI, Sir Robert Thompson, Ian Greig, Harold Soref and G. K. Young. (Counter spy November 1981) An interesting line-up. Lyons was “London contact for the Maheu agency” – the Robert Maheu Agency which worked for Howard Hughes. (Hougan, 1979, p. […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cazalet, Victor Cazalet: A Portrait (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1976), written by Robert Rhodes James MP, but confirmed by Cazalet’s private papers. 36 Quoted in Richard Bassett, Hitler’s Spy Chief: The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London: Phoenix, 2005) pp. 213 and 218-219. 37 Prince Paul was educated at Oxford, where he was a member of the […]

Misc reviews

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[…] in the foreword, that in 1965 he was asked by a CIA officer if he would ‘volunteer’ to kill Fitzer. The CIA officer said Pitzer was a spy, a traitor. Marvin declined – but only because the CIA officer wanted it done in the US: Marvin wouldn’t kill at home, only overseas. (To my […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] so Hollingshead’s antics are not out of keeping with such an approach. On the other hand, he was never officer material and clearly didn’t operate as a spy or agent in any conventional sense. He was far too unreliable a character. As well as having a prodigious appetite for alcohol and a wide range […]

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