TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] in old age. As well as believing that Hollis was a Soviet mole, like James Angleton of the CIA, Wright believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet agent. They believed this because a Soviet defector Golitsyn suggested that he was. There is a puzzle here, for Tate reminds us that Harold Macmillan had Downing […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and The first thing I did during my […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] given the chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] by faith alone – one adopted by the entire US political class and deeply held to this day. In the English-speaking world, mainstream journalism is the principal agent of what Orwell called ‘the thought police’ . CIA: the ministry of love and peace Instrumental in the creation of a permanent war system – true […]

The Assault on Truth: Boris Johnson, Donald Trump and the Emergence of a New Moral Barbarism by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] mass destruction’ lies as examples of Leftist dishonesty. The vector for this contamination was apparently Dominic Cummings, a man much influenced by the example of the Comintern agent Willi Munzenberg! This is just so much special pleading, of course. And while not defending Blair, it is worth remembering that the invasion of Iraq had […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] he still possessed capabilities for mass killing. Saddam’s best-hidden secret was his (at least temporary) weakness.38 The ‘bluff’ story seems to have originated in the FBI, whose agent George Piro (an Arabic-speaking Lebanese American) interrogated Saddam after his capture.39 The Daily Mail reported that during the interrogation Piro came to understand that ‘Saddam’s claim […]

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