[…] presents Golitsyn as part of an older, more complex game designed to mess up James Angleton’s head. Boiled down, Rosenbaum suggests that way back in the 1950s, Philby was the sharp end of a plan to confirm and exacerbate Angleton’s paranoia about the omnipotence of the KGB, a plan whose climax was exposing Angleton’s […]
C. Gordon Tether Mike Peters in Lobster 32 mentioned a book – actually, a pamphlet – called The Banned Articles of C. Gordon Tether (ISBN 0905821009) in which Tether had published those items written for his Financial Times column which the editor had seen fit to pull. Not having looked at it for about a […]
Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close […]
[…] an avid reader of all things political and para-political, including Lobster, and a great correspondent. He would regularly send me copies of letters he had from Kim Philby, J.B.S. Haldane, Graham Greene, Ivor Montague, and others from the murky world of spooks and traitors. He clearly loved every minute of his post-war life with […]
See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Below is a list of spooks, both dead and […]
[…] See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ (Lobster 15) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) Spooks (Lobster 22) The official response to the ‘Who’s who’ Lobster special was non-existent. This was something of a disappointment to one […]
[…] and ‘Pickle the Spy’ (c1725-1761). More recent practitioners range from minor characters, such as Greville Wynne and John Vassall, to major operators Blunt, Burgess, Maclean and Philby. ‘Spooks’ are also covered, with almost ninety members of the intelligence community listed. Many of these had other occupations John Henry Bevan (‘intelligence officer and […]
[…] Sean Gabb, anon in Dubai and Simon Matthews for cuttings and other information. Morris Riley – an apology In Lobster 37 (p. 47) I said his book, Philby: the Hidden Years, had been ‘published without anyone looking at the final typeset copy’. This is false. I failed to notice the publisher’s explanation for the […]
[…] States into Western Ukraine and Eastern Poland as agents and would-be saboteurs. Most were immediately captured, partly — but not exclusively — through the activities of Kim Philby. The authors have chapters on “The Philby Connection’ and Klaus Barbie and the “American connection’, but, largely rehashing the work of Costello, Cave Brown, Pincher, David […]
[…] the Queen. No matter: to hint to his readers just how important this section of the book is, Forsyth dresses it up as a letter from Kim Philby (!) to the Chairman of the CPSU, and has it printed in italics, all ten pages of it; and he later confirmed, to the Times Diary, […]
