Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] wait long to get their revenge. The following month they broke the story that a cipher clerk in the French diplomatic service, Maurice Abrivard, had been a KGB spy for ten years up to his death in 1984, delivering diplomatic codes and important secrets about the installation of US Pershing missiles in Europe to […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] sources and associate partners world-wide (11) Therefore, the world is being divvied-up among confreres including, say, the CIA in South America, Mossad, or today’s equivalent of the KGB, with each taking, in PR jargon, ‘lead agency status’ in their own areas. ‘Coordination’ will, of course, unravel. It always does. CIA imperatives, much like President […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] former CIA officer Melvin Beck, the CIA was trying to photograph it, and the lobby was crawling with spies from as many five different services (FBI, CIA, KGB, GRU and DGI). While one cannot say that Jones’s 1960 visit to Cuba was necessarily a spying mission, the circumstantial evidence suggests that it was. That […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because it had collaborated with CIA plans to balkanise the former Russian Empire by supporting […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] anarchists whose activities led to the Siege of Sidney Street in London in 1911. This group contained Yakov Peters, later a highly placed figure in the NKVD/ KGB. He was also, apparently, an informer for both Scotland Yard and the Tsarist secret police.(1) There appear to be many other examples of this capacity to […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
[…] the Origins of the CIA, Charles Scribner/New York, 1992, pp. 42 – 44, 442 – 448. David Murphy, Sergei Kondrashev, & George Bailey, Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War, Yale University Press/New Haven, 1997, p. 106. Warner p. 3. Quoted in Neil Jumonville, Critical Crossings: The New York Intellectuals in Postwar […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Billygate incident, when the brother of President Jimmy Carter found himself entangled with Libyan leader Ghadaffi. After working for Haig – and helping Claire Sterling promote the KGB plot to kill the Pope story – Ledeen became a consultant to Reagan’s National Security Council. There he figured importantly in the Iran-Contra scandal through his […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] that made analog long-distance equipment for export to Soviet bloc countries. Frequently the specifications called for an access port for each channel, which we dubbed the ‘ KGB output.’ Now it turns out that the FBI wants the same thing. Not to be outdone, the NSA played the major role in the development of […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] reviews are welcome from any source, and I’m glad to see this didn’t recycle the story put about by USIS people that Lobster was some kind of KGB operation, it is worth noting the following. Lobster’s circulation is 1000 not 50. There has only been one ‘British eccentric’ involved for over five years. It […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] in which Epstein tries to prove that Oswald fell victim to an elaborate Soviet intelligence ‘honey trap’ while in Japan that led him to spy for the KGB. Shortly after Legend appeared in print, however, investigators for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) interviewed some of Epstein’s purported sources. The interviews (many now […]