Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Soviet issues, academics like Leonard Shapiro, rival translators like Max Haward……. were gripped by the paranoia of those days, the belief in the all-conquering guile of the KGB…… Leo Labedz, editor of the CIA-funded quarterly about the Soviet bloc, Survey ……feeding lies about my work to columnists on a scurrilous magazine, frightening my House […]

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] he had in fact previously served as an intelligence officer for the State Department. Of course the East German Who’s Who may be wrong. But since the KGB are believed to have compiled it, then we can speculate that they assumed Oswald, whilst in Moscow, was in contact with several CIA-linked American citizens. The […]

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Agca: true confessions

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role […]

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Stalin’s granny

Book review
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Norwood about her childhood among a group of pro-Soviet radical exiles in England in the 1920s and 30s, when it was revealed in the press, via the KGB defector Metrokhin, that she had been a Soviet spy during and after WW2, leaking nuclear secrets. So Burke’s research shifted its focus and this book is […]

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Ronald Gray (1920-2008)

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] Bookdealer, ‘we can supply anything you want on espionage, and much more.’ Over the years, he did! Hammersmith Books provided books to many customers world-wide, including the KGB ‘illegal’ Gordon Lonsdale, who, when he was in Winson Green Prison, began to write a definitive assessment of what SOE had actually achieved in World War […]

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Lundy, and, Scotland Yard’s Cocaine Connection

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] disinformation for profit. In this hothouse atmosphere paranoia develops and conspiracies are everywhere, often inspired by supposed colleagues. Just as James Angleton was accused of being a KGB agent because of his overly close relationship to Golitsyn, so Lundy was smeared because of his working relationship with Garner. It is not a game for […]

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Conspiracy theories are go!

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] the video, also called ‘Fascist Terror Stalking America’, Marrs claims that the video shows ‘a solid connection between the Gestapo of Hitler’s Nazi Germany, the Cheka and KGB of Stalinist Russia, and today’s fascist New World Order. Fascists such as Stalin, Hitler, Clinton and Reno have no conscience and feel no more remorse for […]

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Who Murdered Yitzhak Rabin?

Book cover
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] making concessions to the Palestinians. On the evidence presented by Chamish this is about as accurate as saying that JFK was murdered by Oswald working for the KGB. Chamish shows in some detail that the Rabin killing was a variation on the Sirhan Sirhan attack on Robert Kennedy. Yes, Rabin’s ‘assassin’ was firing at […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] rescue this by claiming Hoon was investigating plans to use motor-racing fuelling systems in military helicopters. The Independent, 4 August 2003 Baker p. xvi Baker quotes ‘the KGB assassination squad’: ‘Anyone can commit a murder but it takes an artist to commit a suicide.’ Baker p. 340 Baker p. 213 Baker p. 298 Baker […]

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Splinter Factor

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] American conspiracy round the activities of a fellow-travelling American Quaker, Noel Field, who had been in (innocent) contact with many leading figures in the Soviet bloc. ( KGB: the Inside Story pp. 336-341) Neither refers to Stewart Steven’s book, Operation Splinter Factor (London 1974, 76 and 78). Steven’s book is also about Noel Field […]

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