[…] 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’ […]
[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 […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Jackie doesn’t flinch (and other JFK bits and pieces) There are lots of bits of film on YouTube about the Kennedy assassination and I’ve looked at many. Recently I clicked on one made by one George Jettison, which opens with him – a large […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Major Alastair 11 See Stanley Pignal, ‘G4S beefs up security side with ArmorGroup purchase’, Financial Times, 22 March 2008, at . 12 See Saeed Shah, ‘Former MI6 spy joins Armor Group to hunt down new business’, The Independent, 20 August 2006 at . 13 14 15 See ‘Memorandum from ArmorGroup Services Limited’, presented to […]
[…] then the impunity of it. I realised that the UK has almost no laws 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 […]
