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[…] a new book about the death of the Labour MP Bob Cryer: Killing Cryer: The Life and Mysterious Death of a British MP Who Exposed America’s Secret Spy Base.8 Dr. Roger Cottrell is a kind of Lobster fellow-traveller, as a search for his name on this site will show. He now has a ‘substack’ […]

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

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of Commons on 8 December, Channon writes ‘Russia saved the government in July; now Japan will do likewise’. He had enough political sense to know 25 Hitler’s Spy Chief (London: Pegasus, 2013) pp. 213-216 Replacing him with Richard Law, Conservative MP for Kingston upon Hull SW and son of Andrew Bonar Law. A right-wing […]

The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: The ‘Tsarevich’ Nikolai Chebotarev and his links to British Intelligence. Peter Luce The recent review of Kevin Coogan’s The Spy Who Would be Tsar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground1 prompted me to re-read the work of another claimant to the Russian imperial succession. In 1998 Michael Gray, a former Technical […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] (shades of the late Simon Dee) became a popular DJ on the BBC. 6 Stonehouse was the subject of allegations in 1969 that he was a Czech spy. Was the selection of the RNI broadcasting frequency a deliberate attempt to compromise or embarrass him? If so, by whom? voters to ditch Wilson and go […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] the JFK researchers are coming – and Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] defeated. Coudenhove-Kalergi Seton-Watson supported Popovici’s proposals pre-1914, arguing then and subsequently for a federal solution to the problems of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. 12 Richard Bassett, in HITLER’S SPY CHIEF – The Wilhelm Canaris Mystery (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2005) says that Coudenhove-Kalergi’s contact with the Vatican probably came via Erwin von Lahousen, a member […]

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