South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he was […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was abandoned by the CIA, Goleniewski made an increasingly weird set of claims, starting with that old favourite on the far-right: that Henry Kissinger was a Soviet agent. He went on to claim that the American journalist/writer Guy Richards was really Reinhard Heydrich (who is otherwise universally believed to be have been killed during […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the frontier with neutral Spain and they were under observation by German agents in a hut on the Spanish side of the fence. The future Soviet double agent Kim Philby had also recently been in Gibraltar, serving as British counter-intelligence chief in Iberia. The simultaneous presence of Maisky and Sikorski in Gibraltar proved tricky […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as a taxi-driver, waiter or similar.’ 8 See, for instance: ‘Election 2019: Arron […]

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[…] However the only CIA officer who spoke of the Agency’s role, E. Howard Hunt, did not include Lansdale in his version of the conspiracy;5 and CIA contract agent Chauncey Holt, one of the three ‘tramps’, also does not mention Lansdale in his various accounts. many years at the Financial Times and Telegraph – knew […]

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