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[…] of the other British major media would. On 16 March they carried the text of a 2020 report on Covid’s origins, commissioned by the former head of SIS, Richard Dearlove. The report begins: ‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in Wuhan Institute for Virology’.33 It assembles the evidence that was […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] chemist, to see a doctor as he had been ill for several months with ulcer problems, had become despondent, and was now suffering from a severe psycho sis. That’s the story as reported at the time. An open and shut case: Olson had a cocktail of medical problems, both physical and mental, so it […]

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[…] of the other British major media would. On 16 March they carried the text of a 2020 report on Covid’s origins, commissioned by the former head of SIS, Richard Dearlove. The report begins: ‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in Wuhan Institute for Virology’.16 It assembles the evidence that was […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] MI6 after these reports emerged, it was stated that this had been the MI6/LIFG plot in action. Shayler took MI6 at their word and had no ba sis for this belief (that the LIFG were responsible) other than the fact that it was MI6 officer ‘PT16B’ – now known to be David Watson – […]

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[…] 2 1 other British major media would. On 16 March they carried the text of a 2020 report on Covid’s origins, commissioned by the former head of SIS, Richard Dearlove. The report begins: ‘It is now beyond reasonable doubt that COVID-19 was engineered in Wuhan Institute for Virology’.3 It assembles the evidence that was […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.79 The Intercept describes how the CIA used […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] of American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.79 The Intercept describes how the CIA used […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] from the Kennedy White House was a desire to avoid something which might embarrass the Democratic Party. There are two recent large rehashes of the LBJ-dunnit the sis. One is by Ron Unz, who does a competent job running through the literature.18 Much better, though, is M. C. Armstrong’s ‘Murder Most Foul: The Role […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] corroborates the general view of their brilliance. This stands out particularly by contrast with the stupidity of Britain’s main overseas espionage organisation at that time, MI6 ( SIS), staffed by ‘men of moderate abilities, drawn into the organization by the lure of playing out a pastiche of Kipling’s “Great Game”, and often after earlier […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] from the Kennedy White House was a desire to avoid something which might embarrass the Democratic Party. There are two recent large rehashes of the LBJ-dunnit the sis. One is by Ron Unz, who does a competent job running through the literature.3 Much better, though, is M. C. Armstrong’s ‘Murder Most Foul: The Role […]

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