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 […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] all about the US’s supposedly secret negotiations with Iraq, and even the details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Jona retained that spelling. Peter changed it to Ustinov. For simplicity I have used Ustinov here for both. 16 Peter Day, Klop – Britain’s most ingenious secret agent (Biteback, 2014) and Hugh Purcell, A very private celebrity – The nine lives of John Freeman (Robson Press, 2015) questionnaire enquiring about his racial background and […]

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 […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he amassed the material that would form the basis for his 1978 Legend:The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, wherein he indicates that Oswald was a KGB agent. Mr Epstein wrote a long piece, ‘Reading Oswald’s Hand’, about his analysis of the Historic Diary manuscript for the magazine Psychology Today in April 1978. It […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] time went by. RFK on the other hand had power, and Hoover viewed him as a ‘sneaky little son of a bitch’. Hoover even assigned a Special Agent to watch the Attorney-General’s television appearances.9 The anti-MLK ‘cabal’ The Autumn 1963 dossier episode had allowed the dossier’s author (key FBI man William Sullivan) to create […]

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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’, does not mention Lansdale in his various accounts. many years at the Financial Times and Telegraph – knew what […]

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