The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] cover-up of the Contras/cocaine connection is, like Webb’s 1996 exposé itself, not conclusive – but it’s there. Blunt in Hesse O ne of the puzzles Peter ‘Spycatcher’ Wright said he never solved in the hundreds of hours during which he interrogated unmasked Soviet double-agent Sir Anthony Blunt was the precise nature of Blunt’s mission […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones Oxford University Press, 2013, £20, h/b Bernard Porter Britain and America came quite late to the spying game, but by the late 20th century had come to dominate it. It is this, I suppose, that justifies the subtitle of this book, which scarcely mentions […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]

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