I helped carry William Burroughs to the medical tent

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the police on the grounds that he was in breach of electoral law (he was) by distributing specifically partisan and targeted material without indicating a printer or agent and without submitting proper expenses. This resulted in a major Special Branch enquiry throughout the remainder of 1970 during which Simon Dee (whose whereabouts were known) […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[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 […]

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