Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] implemented. This is challenged in Lobster No 10. 28. Thompson (1980) p. 75.The Monday Club held a conference on “subversion” in 1970. Speakers included Charles Lyon, ex- FBI, Sir Robert Thompson, Ian Greig, Harold Soref and G. K. Young. (Counterspy November 1981) An interesting line-up. Lyons was “London contact for the Maheu agency” – […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the money was held very closely within the Party. Perhaps through Morris Childs, the American Communist Party’s link with the Soviets, their bagman, who was an FBI agent. On Childs see, for example a summary of the major book on this subject at and see also < www.theatlantic.com/doc/200207/ garrow>, an essay by David […]

Lobster review: 1992 guide to intelligence periodics

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[…] Lord Rotl1schild in this regard, as seen by tl1e press, and authors Nigel West and Cl1apman Pincher, among others. Also included is a translation, done by the FBI, of Philby’s 1971 interview in Estonia.105 Many articles are heavily footnoted, an element of scholarship Ramsay and Dorril have made an art form that the 102.LOBSTER, […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Commission it so low key and muted that the reader would hardly notice it; but even this criticism is soon deflected to the Commission’s inquiry agents, the FBI and CIA, and centres on what exactly Oswald was doing in Mexico City. Shenon argues that if the investigations there had been done properly evidence would […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] report from her office because she stashed it in her tights.2 Amusing as this old-skool method of smuggling might be, I discovered something even funnier in the FBI transcript of their first encounter with Ms Winner. When a phalanx of FBI agents arrived at Ms Winner’s house to execute a search warrant, they asked […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to counter Soviet operations against the UK. From 1949 to 1951 he was posted to Washington, working as the SIS liaison officer with the CIA and the FBI. He appeared to be destined for a top job in SIS, but was forced to resign in the wake of the Burgess and Maclean defections to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] I noticed in a review of Seth Rosenfeld’s Subversives: The FBI’s War on Student Radicals, and Reagan’s Rise to Power7 that Aoki had been working for the FBI at the time. What would the American left have looked like without the federal government’s involvement? 5 6 7 4 radiation emitted by mobile phones, their […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to underestimate their enemies. The USA secret service learned quickly, after a sluggish beginning, especially its signals interception, but was not as good as it boasted (the FBI claimed to have invented and run the ‘double-cross’ system, which I always understood was a British achievement – insofar as it didn’t go back to Biblical […]

Phil Shenon – a cruel and shocking twist

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] encouraged him kill Kennedy. Following the Kennedy assassination, and even before the end of 1963, the party Oswald ostensibly attended had come to the attention of the FBI agent in Mexico City who had interviewed the participants and discounted the affair. Sylvia Duran’s cousin was the Mexican poet and writer Elena Garro de Paz. […]

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