Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] 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 USSR in 1951, as a result of his friendship with Burgess. He was rehired as a part-timer while working as a […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] expired: Blunt moved in with Tessa Mayor (then Lord Rothschild’s secretary in MI5, later his wife), Patrician Rawdon-Smith (who later married a friend of Blunt’s) and Guy Burgess. They were soon joined by Jack Hewitt, a sailor boyfriend of Burgess, who very quickly switched his allegiance to Blunt. Hewitt told John Costello that during […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
[PDF file]: […] as Smith notes there might well be an SIS file. Interest in Auden did, however, explode into life in June 1951 at the time of the Guy Burgess defection. One of the last things Burgess did before disappearing was try to contact Auden, something that excited considerable activity on the part of MI5. Smith […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] Germany. Once the US seized control of the diplomatic initiative in Europe in 1948-1949, proclaiming the existence of a Cold War, and especially after the decamping of Burgess and McLean in 1951, expansive liberal types like Klop were not in vogue. A strong case can be made for him being the most competent intelligence […]