First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] ROOM 40 29-51 PROF. OF GERMAN EDINBURGH UNI. 39-43 ‘SECONDED TO FOREIGN OFFICE’ 51-61 PROF. OF GERMAN CAMB. UNI. BURDEN, STEVE GCHQ 1988 SENIOR MAINTENANCE ENGINEER, CHELTENHAM BURGESS, LT-COL. JOHN H.S. MI5 (C) 1970s INTELLIGENCE CORPS 74-76 COMMANDING OFFICER SMIU (N.IRELAND) -77 CO OF DEPOT INTELLIGENCE CORPS ASHFORD, KENT. -80’s NORTHERN IRELAND (MI5) BURNETT, […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] with Foreign Office approval. As part of its brief to identify leaks in Sterling Area exhange controls, the Tangier station reported that ‘a flaming pansy, one Guy Burgess who seems to be in the Foreign Office, has turned up with a boy friend, and has been telling all and sundry in the hotel bar […]

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Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] a survey of British courses which include an intelligence component, a list of forthcoming conferences and seminars on the subject, a review of the FBI file on Burgess and Philby, and a long list of recent and forthcoming intelligence publications. The newsletter is published by Robert Aldrich, Department of Politics and Contemporary History, University […]

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Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] to the Head of Special Branch RUC, at RUC HQ, Belfast, it was commanded in the 70’s by Lt. Col. Brian Dixon and then Lt. Col. John Burgess, both of the Intelligence Corps. These Commanding Officers, with a small staff, controlled a Military Intelligence Officer (MIO) and his assistant, a Field Intelligence NCO (FINCO) […]

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The Great Betrayal

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] is raised, but as usual it is just another red herring. There are many files available under the Freedom of Information Act in the US on Philby, Burgess and Maclean, (see, for example, Sunday Times 31 March 1985), and the top secret State Department decimal file for Albania 1948/9 is available for all to […]

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Kincoragate: parapolitics

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] as a Sunday Times journalist. He was a close friend of Sir Frank Howard Smith with whom he served in Washington at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. Smith was a career MI6 officer who served as UK civil representative in Northern Ireland from 1970, and who set up the contemporary British intelligence […]

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A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] some way related to espionage. These rumours were given the proverbial ‘shot in the arm’ with the 2002 publication of Roger Lewis’s scurrilous biography, entitled simply Anthony Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] Academy in New England and then Cambridge University in England, where he was a member of the Pitt Club, that later also included double-agent and defector Guy Burgess. After working at a bank for a while, Bond decided to devote his time to his primary interest – birds, and specialized on birds of the […]

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