Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] they depend on a predictable British reaction, the cover-up, to self-inflict longer term political damage? Some sections of the British right seemed to believe so. Burgess and Maclean defected in 1951 after Maclean was pinpointed by a Venona decryption as agent Homer. Burgess didn’t have to go with him, he wasn’t suspected. Burgess’s defection […]
Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)
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[PDF file]: Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America Nancy MacLean Michigan (USA): Scribe Publishing, 2017, £10.99 Bartholomew Steer This book ticks a lot of boxes. First, it does not shrink from acknowledging the existence of a conspiracy working against the interests of the ordinary folk. That it centres […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] the left-wing Yemeni regime and its Egyptian backers. ‘I can find you a Scotsman’, replied Young, and over a lunch in the City introduced Colonel Neil (‘Billy’) Maclean to Brigadier Dan Hiram, the Israeli Defence Attache. The Israelis promised to supply weapons, funds and instructors who could pass themselves off as Arabs, and the […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
the first book from the KGB archives John Costello and Oleg Tsarev Century, London, 1993 Yet another reheat of the interminable stew of Philby, Burgess, Blunt, Maclean et al, this time spiced up with material from the KGB archives. Yes, the KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] who recruited him for the Soviets?’ ‘I’m sure he was looked over by ‘Milord’. And I’m sure that it was ‘Milord’ who had already spotted Burgess and Maclean. At that stage I should think that Burgess was the man who mattered. I’d say too that Philby got his Soviet funds through Burgess.’ ‘What was […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] A. R. ‘Kim’ Philby, that perfect spy, was quite possibly within a few months of becoming head of MI6, when the British diplomat and Soviet spy Donald Maclean a rising star in his own right was fingered by the U. S. government’s code breakers. Maclean and his too loyal friend Guy Burgess […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] OBE (1976) B 19.7.13, D 15.7.82 ORIEL COLL OXFORD 1938 ZAGREB (CROATIA) BRITISH COUNCIL 1939 INFORMATION OFFICER ZAGREB 1941 POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE OFFICER CAIRO 1943 YUGOSLAVIA WITH FITZROY MACLEAN 1944 INTERPRETER FOR CHURCHILL AT CASERTA (ITALY). ATTACHED MILITARY MISSION TO CROATIA ALSO VIS (YUGOSLAVIA) AND BELGRADE 1945 1ST SEC (INFO) AND PRESS ATTACHE BELGRADE 1946 […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] but as usual it is just another red herring. There are many files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to see in […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] Joan’ (c1600-1655?) and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are also covered, with almost ninety members of the intelligence community listed. Many of these had other occupations John Henry Bevan (‘intelligence […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] a Home Officer Minister, wrote of Bethell: ‘In my view the odds are a million to one against Bethell being a security risk in the sense that Maclean and Burgess and Philby were. But I think there may be a chance that he is a security risk in the sense that information, which he […]