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 […]

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

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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 […]

Nurse Death’s little helper: 
Sir David Davis and the PR campaign to free Lucy Letby


Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] she will have her convictions quashed.’15 While Mr Maddocks has had some successes with miscarriage of justice cases, he has also had Glyn Maddocks his failures. David Burgess was sentenced to life in prison in 1967, after being convicted of two child murders, and spent nearly 40 years protesting that he was innocent. Mr […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] she will have her convictions quashed.’15 While Mr Maddocks has had some successes with miscarriage of justice cases, he has also had Glyn Maddocks his failures. David Burgess was sentenced to life in prison in 1967, after being convicted of two child murders, and spent nearly 40 years protesting that he was innocent. Mr […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] she will have her convictions quashed.’15 While Mr Maddocks has had some successes with miscarriage of justice cases, he has also had Glyn Maddocks his failures. David Burgess was sentenced to life in prison in 1967, after being convicted of two child murders, and spent nearly 40 years protesting that he was innocent. Mr […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] she will have her convictions quashed.’15 While Mr Maddocks has had some successes with miscarriage of justice cases, he has also had Glyn Maddocks his failures. David Burgess was sentenced to life in prison in 1967, after being convicted of two child murders, and spent nearly 40 years protesting that he was innocent. Mr […]

nurse-death-little-helper-final-text-upload

Lobster Issue

[…] she will have her convictions quashed.’15 While Mr Maddocks has had some successes with miscarriage of justice cases, he has also had Glyn Maddocks his failures. David Burgess was sentenced to life in prison in 1967, after being convicted of two child murders, and spent nearly 40 years protesting that he was innocent. Mr […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

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 […]

Apocryphilia

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 […]

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