The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is the […]

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[…] who had contact with the CPGB,30 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] so, and had travelled extensively to and from the Soviet Union, on private business, since 1951. Conspiracy theories abounded on this point – was Wilson a Soviet agent? Macmillan was simultaneously trying to persuade an irritated, reluctant and puzzled US that the UK should borrow/share the Polaris nuclear missile system (why didn’t the British […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] But Harris and Wilbourn claim they have new evidence to suggest that Haushofer was risking his own life in the perilous mission, by acting as a double agent for the British. According to their earlier book Rudolf Hess: A New Technical Analysis of the Hess Flight, May 194112 the three most senior RAF officers […]

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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] (see note 18) p. 608. 29 Robert Moss, Chile’s Marxist Experiment (Newton Abbot, Devon: David and Charles, 1973). 30 See McEvoy, (see note 18). Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: Harper Collins, 1993), p. 115. 31 See Jennifer M. Piscopo and Peter M. Siavelis, ‘Chile’s Constitutional Moment’, Current History Vol. 120, […]

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