Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] sabotage has surfaced. But, from Haldeman’s January 1969 encounter with Nixon (described above), we know that Nixon entered office with his own subterfuge weighing heavily on his mind. This might have been compounded by the fact that, when he took office, Nixon abandoned any pretence at seeking peace and escalated the Vietnam War instead. […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update Robin Ramsay I researched and wrote The Clandestine Caucus (listed on the website as CC) in the years following the publication of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. It continued that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] unfolds. Steele observed the collapse of Soviet Communism firsthand. He describes one particularly telling incident he witnessed in Moscow in 1991 that very much sticks in the mind, both his and mine. He saw a car crashed into a lamp-post with a dead driver at the wheel on his way home one Friday night […]

LBJ: doubles and disinformation

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] even his clothes looked exactly like the President. It was as if a ghost had suddenly appeared. Even his voice sounded so much like Mr. Kennedy’s. My mind simply couldn’t absorb it all and Louise was struck dumb, her eyes wide open in amazement. Lish introduced the double as a fellow agent and apologized […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a world war and rationing, he parties hard. Keeping up with his endless social activities (he is always dining, noon and night, and continually drinking) brings to mind the observation of how difficult it would be for any reader to try and emulate the alcohol intake of James Bond, and remain sober.2 In the […]

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