The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] work with the Pinay Circle (Cercle Pinay) in the 1970s and 80s.9 But the Telegraph fudged Crozier’s links with the CIA, even though in his memoir Free Agent, Crozier is open 7 and 8 On which see David Teacher’s enormous study, downloadable at . 9 5 The willingness to fake US intelligence for bureaucratic […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[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 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 […]

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 […]

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