The View from the Bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proofreading assistance. * new* SNAFU or FUBAR? I glance at the financial pages of some of the newspapers, mainly to see the latest idiocy that has been allowed to happen. Most recently that has been […]

The view from the bridge

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A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] his experience with the US Special Forces at Fort Bragg and in Vietnam with the 5th Special Forces Group, the film was utterly panned, even in the New York Times (Renata Adler, 20 June 1968). 3 The Gulag Archipelago was published in English in 1974. 4 Pardon my retort to US Vice President Spiro […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

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[PDF file]: […] 28 November 1953 Dr Frank R Olson, a U.S. government bacteriologist, fell or jumped to his death from a tenth floor room of the Hotel Statler in New York City. He had travelled up to New York with a colleague, Dr Robert Lashbrook, a Defense Department chemist, to see a doctor as he had […]

View from the bridge

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. * new* ‘This is not a nothing-burger . . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.1 Morley was referring to the revelation that head […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] who Betrayed a Generation (London: Sphere, 1977) p. 327. 5 2 counter-intelligence department) for the best part of three years before Philby moved to take over the new Section IX. Ben Macintyre places Philby’s friendship with fellow SIS officer Nicholas Elliott at the centre of his version of the Philby story, but in reality […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] . Kelly Ian Fleming – The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare London: Harvill Secker, 2024 The latest surge of interest in 007, James Bond, isn’t triggered by a new Bond movie, or speculation over who will play the next celluloid Bond, but by the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first 007 novel, Casino […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] . Kelly Ian Fleming – The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare London: Harvill Secker, 2024 The latest surge of interest in 007, James Bond, isn’t triggered by a new Bond movie, or speculation over who will play the next celluloid Bond, but by the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first 007 novel, Casino […]

View from Bridge copo

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. * new* Still in Dallas On JFKfacts is a recent note by Chad Neagle, ‘Tale of Two Defectors; One was thoroughly debriefed by the CIA. The other was accused of killing JFK.’1 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] . Kelly Ian Fleming – The Complete Man Nicholas Shakespeare London: Harvill Secker, 2024 The latest surge of interest in 007, James Bond, isn’t triggered by a new Bond movie, or speculation over who will play the next celluloid Bond, but by the 70th anniversary of the publication of the first 007 novel, Casino […]

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