The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] equipped with broadcasting radios. Indeed, Atkins admits that the TRD radio sets, with which Section VII from MI6 had been equipped, ‘were not terribly effective as a spy set’.1 0 The advantage, as I see it, that the Auxiliary Units Operational Patrols had, was that they did not possess any radios and were, thus, […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] release them, with all their revelations about the Hess affair. Scott Newton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. Joseph Fitsanakis, ‘Cambridge spy ring member gave USSR British royals’ pro-Nazi letters’, Intelnews.org, 6 April 2021, at . Blunt’s career, including his time in MI5 and his post-war mission to […]

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