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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Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] outfit based in Belgium (Stevenson, 1983, p. 272). (See appendix on Interdoc.) This, of course, was before Ellis was accused by Pincher and others of being a KGB “mole”. The publisher is given as Tom Stacey but the book is catalogued by Geoffrey StewartSmith’s distribution service as “a Common Cause publication”. Stacey turns up […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] disinformation projects.1 What he omitted, of course, was that this AIDS nonsense was a response to the US disinformation at the beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

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[PDF file]: […] he has been largely blanked by the major media, even though they are fascinated by spies and Symonds is the only British citizen to act as a KGB agent and return to tell the tale. Symonds was a detective in London in the late 1960s and early 1970s, at the time when the Metropolitan […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] disinformation projects.1 What he omitted, of course, was that this AIDS nonsense was a response to the US disinformation at the beginning of the decade about the KGB shooting the Pope. After I wrote that paragraph I was looking at volume 1 of Charles Moore’s biography of Margaret Thatcher and noticed that he has […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first chief directorate of the KGB) recruited […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] director of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Director of the Who Killed K‘ennedy Committee.’ (See .) Some of the CIA thought (a) that the Permindex material was KGB in origin, run through a Comm-symp newspaper and (b) that Schoenman had brought it to Garrison’s attention on their behalf. So was he CIA or KGB? […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] google shows, Pacepa – who died in February 202160 – first offered this ridiculous nonsense in 2007 in his Programmed to Kill: Lee Harvey Oswald, the Soviet KGB, and the Kennedy Assassination. This is a summary of that book’s thesis.61 ‘Pacepa contends that the Soviet PGU (the first chief directorate of the KGB) recruited […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and Director of the Who Killed Kennedy Committee.’ (See .) 46 Some of the CIA thought (a) that the Permindex material was KGB in origin, run through a Comm-symp newspaper and (b) that Schoenman had brought it to Garrison’s attention on their behalf. So was he CIA or KGB? […]

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