The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] appointed by other MPs. 5 The complete transcript, over 200 pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . 6 2 ‘on the ba sis that his role focused on providing private advice to him and the national security council and his appearance would “set a difficult precedent.”’ In response to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] parapolitics, primarily covering the activities of the British Security and Intelligence Services. It was co-founded/edited with Robin Ramsay, who went through something of a self-confessed mid-life cri sis and unceremoniously ejected Stephen Dorril, stole the Lobster name, subscription list and back copies. Almost none of this is true. Yes, Dorril suggested the name and […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] college,191 and the The Economist, just in time for the fall of the Soviet bloc. Were she British I would wonder if that was her route into SIS. As an American, probably not. More likely it was just another stop on the way to her current prominent place among the apologists for liberal internationalism. […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] most frequently used techniques were bribery, propaganda and manipulation. Phoney political movements and parties were created. This continued into the 1980s when the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) – allegedly, says the author – began funding one of the Islamic groups in Pakistan to spread Islamic literature among the Soviet republics with large Islamic […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] A very much larger part of my appeal was showing how the extensive list of intelligence officers’ names that could be gleaned from the official history of SIS by Professor Keith Jeffery2 illustrated that, when it suits them, the FCO are quite happy for names to be in the public domain. I will return […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] has given enough of his life in service to a state that appears unable to defend its most basic interests. (p. 81) Field officer Sharman resigns from SIS, becomes a consultant/researcher and stumbles across the traces of a Russian spy and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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 the sis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British […]

Beaumont novel copy

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[…] has given enough of his life in service to a state that appears unable to defend its most basic interests. (p. 81) Field officer Sharman resigns from SIS, becomes a consultant/researcher and stumbles across the traces of a Russian spy and influence network based on Oxford University, involving some of the people he knew […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

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[PDF file]: […] 1688-1914 (London: Longman, 1993), pp. 306-15. 3 1 As far as the first of these is concerned, the best way to approach it is through the analy sis developed by two historians, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, in a famous article called ‘The Imperialism of Free Trade’. This appeared in 1953 in the distinguished […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 the sis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that Belfrage has been leaking material to the Soviets on instruction from BSC (British […]

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