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[…] referred to in the footnotes below, can be found in a separate file in the Appendices here. Introduction During the (first) Cold War, NATO countries set up secret ‘stay behind’ networks with caches of arms, ammunition and food/drink etc. in preparation for the day when they were invaded by the Red Army. In the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] an active network: ‘Geheim works closely with . . . Lobster’. The truth is more prosaic. Lobster does exchange subscriptions with Intelligence Newsletter, Covert Action and Top Secret (Geheim), and has plugged all of them in its columns over the years. I have been called once on the telephone by Olivier Schmidt in Paris […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a conference at The Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) School of Advanced Study of the University of London on 29 May 2014. The conference was titled ‘The Secret Archive. What is the significance of the FCO’s “Migrated Archives” and “Special Collections” ’? Secrecy in Britain Jonathan Bloch D istinguished guests it is a great […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] In ‘JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call’. There is no mention of the call in Jefferson Morley’s recent biography of James Angleton, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton (New York: St Martin’s Press, 2017). And Angleton would have been informed of it. 28 In Olen Steinhauer, The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has said that ‘Anthony had an uncanny hold over Peter. They were in love, at least for a time.’ (Penrose and Freeman, op cit p. 48) The secret of Montgomery’s relationship with Blunt never came out during their lifetime. Had it done so Montgomery would have been ruined in Northern Ireland where many of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] those notes. It was that which gave Steve Dorril and I the idea of indexing the notes as well as the text of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. UFOs over Watergate? At the beginning of April, John Simkin31 e-mailed dozens of JFK/Watergate writers the draft of an essay he was writing on the […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the baseball team the Miami Marlins.’66 Cooper was a Lansky front-man who occasional served as a courier for Las Vegas casino profits distributed as untaxed cash to secret mob owners.67 The Molasky family, which financed Garfinkle’s takeover of American News Co., may also have had an interest in the hotel company, as indicted by […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] an active network: ‘Geheim works closely with . . . Lobster’. The truth is more prosaic. Lobster does exchange subscriptions with Intelligence Newsletter, Covert Action and Top Secret (Geheim), and has plugged all of them in its columns over the years. I have been called once on the telephone by Olivier Schmidt in Paris […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] those notes. It was that which gave Steve Dorril and I the idea of indexing the notes as well as the text of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State. UFOs over Watergate? At the beginning of April, John Simkin31 e-mailed dozens of JFK/Watergate writers the draft of an essay he was writing on the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] General William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown out dozens of names of real secret agents who they say were the model for 007. Shakespeare even comes […]

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