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[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute whistle blowers and enemies of power elites. Zersetzen is the biggest threat to […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] . he was arrested because of . . . he was potentially . . . he was potentially spying . . . they thought he was a spy . . . because what he was doing was running round Kharkiv taking pictures of Ukrainian positions and Ukrainian troops and everything, and it turns out […]

Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] the Jewish Chronicle revealed her story to readers of the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. They gave her a double deck headline. Trans Mossad spy who helped track down the Munich terrorists is laid to rest Olivia Jane Frank, who has died aged 76, infiltrated the PLO in Beirut Two lines […]

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[…] have omitted information known to them which conflicts with their overall presentation of the so-called facts. I also suspect that they have edited commentary so that “The Spy” narrative can be maintained throughout. Ms Stonehouse does indeed show that this is the case. However, as she reports on her site: ‘Ofcom said they couldn’t […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on […]

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[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as 58 21 his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] by Giles Turner at or . 19 20 See . 6 Donald Trump the un-intelligent agent All this discussion about whether Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy! I’m not saying that I don’t think he’s capable of being a traitorous bastard, just that the evidence presented thus far is inconclusive. If anything, it’s […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] not. Andrew Biswell dismisses the espionage rumours with the comment: ‘here is nothing among Burgess’s private diaries or financial papers to suggest that he was paid to spy on the Russians.’ Indeed not but, in any case, that is not what Burgess’s Leningrad adventures appear to suggest. This episode is unmistakably a ‘dangle’: Burgess […]

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