Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] for money laundering, something that would once have proven irresistible to his investigative instincts. He is also completely unmoved by the Russian oligarch, Alexander Lebedev, a former KGB colonel and onetime dollar billionaire, being allowed to buy the Evening Standard in 2009. Britain is, it is fair to say, the only liberal democracy where […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] include Ukraine and Georgia. Ukraine looks West The dissolution of the USSR began on 18 August 1991, following an abortive coup against Gorbachev by Communist Party and KGB elements anxious to preserve the Union. Gorbachev sat it out in his holiday dacha on the Crimea and was back in Moscow six days later. Ironically, […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] and is supported by the world’s off-shore banking system. Toby Sculthorp, who referred me to the book review, commented: ‘the thesis that a very small group of KGB officers have been able to rebuild the modern Russian state. So we have a political scientific model that posits that a powerful intelligence cabal – in […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] He continues: ‘…….Over the years, pretty much everyone Jack Kennedy offended, and everyone Lee Harvey Oswald met, has been accused of involvement: the FBI; CIA; ONI; the KGB; Cuban intelligence; anti-Castro Cubans; the mafia; White Russians; the KKK and NSRP.’ Who is missing from the list? Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, one of the […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] consists of, he describes someone as CIA because they were so named in the 1968 Who’s Who in the CIA, published by East German intelligence (or the KGB). Madsen does not want to acknowledge the book’s provenance and tells us that the book was published in West Berlin. This book is well known enough […]