Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] walked towards them. The smirking driver lowered his window. I asked him straight, ‘Why are you following me?’ ‘You’d better get used to it. We represent the Security Service. We know you work for the Mossad. If you’re caught doing stuff for them on British soil, you’ll be arrested.’17 The British were cracking down […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] Balkans. In 2002, the U.S. unilaterally withdrew from the AntiBallistic Missile Treaty over Russia’s strenuous objections. In 2003, the U.S. and NATO allies repudiated the United Nations Security Council by going to war in Iraq on false pretenses. In 2004, the U.S. continued with NATO enlargement, this time to the Baltic states and countries […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its members are […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] thesis. 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 Security Co-ordination).1 Simkins included this killer paragraph: ‘If Gordon Corea and the other journalists working on this story had carried out a simple search for “Cedric Belfrage” […]

Whose Prospect?

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[PDF file]: […] connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre left journal which suffered a crisis in 1967 because of […]

Bilderberg Myths: Were the Bilderbergers behind the 1973 oil shock?

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] two agenda items: ‘I. The possibilities of the development of a European energy policy, and the consequences for European-North American relations. II. Conflicting expectations concerning the European Security Conference.’ 54 The Steering Committee agreed that the authors of the working papers ‘should be in close contact with each other and the Secretariat, in order […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] trained at the same Venice, Florida, flight school, Huffman Aviation.2 Eleven of them opened bank accounts in Florida, with the same bank, and apparently using genuine Social Security numbers – obtained from where, we do not know – as a form of ID.3 Fifteen of the hijackers somehow obtained Floridian driving licences (the issuing […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was ‘corrupt as hell’. (p. 170). The country was a fully-fledged kleptocracy. Between 2001 and 2020, the U.S. allocated $143 billion ‘for reconstruction, aid programs and Afghan security forces’. Adjusted for inflation, this exceeds the funds allocated to the post WW2 Marshall Plan for the whole of Western Europe. (p. 30) Much of this […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] morsels.15 The recording of General Kelly firing her was so clear I think it highly possible that the phone was placed in plain sight (a breach of security for the Situation Room, where electronic devices from outside are banned) and that General Kelly might even have been aware that the recording was taking place. […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] it’s Twitter. And here’s another Cobain cracker: ‘A social media network for young people, launched around the term “woke”, is actually a covert British government counterterrorism programme, security officials have admitted.’ 28 The fact that the official inquiry into 9/11 tried to suppress one chapter, on the Saudi links of the hi-jackers, suggests that […]

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