The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] are to be found on Wikispooks.3 Most important of all are the two essays on these events which appeared in Lobster 66: JANCOM co-founder Martin Tancock’s ‘ Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials’ 4 and Andrew Rosthorn’s ‘Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?’.5 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] the Bridge * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘ Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] transcription of the anonymous letter that Mr Cooper claimed was sent with the ‘Marilyn memo’ can be read in SS Brotherhood of the Bell: The Nazis’ Incredible Secret Technology. The first page of the letter can be read via the Google Books preview at . ‘The Bell’ is supposedly a secret weapon created by […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a spell in journalism (including a stint in Spain, reporting on the civil war there from Franco’s side for The Times), he was recruited into the British secret service in 1940. He worked full-time for SIS from 1940 to 1951 and won a reputation for being intelligent, competent and clubbable. Between 1944 and 1947 […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] be copied. * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘ Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] European witch hunt Richard Webster The Orwell Press, £7.95 (UK) 2011, p/b Webster’s analysis of the British children’s home pedophile panic of the 1980s and 90s, The Secret of Bryn Estyn, is one of the great solo investigations. Webster showed that the entire series of episodes, the result of a nation-wide ‘trawling’ by the […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

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[PDF file]: […] police to organise the raid in order to seize Paul Atkinson’s files, notebooks and videos.’3 The BBC’s undercover report on racism in police training, screened as The Secret Policeman in October 2003, won a BAFTA award and an unprecedented apology from home secretary David Blunkett who had initially condemned BBC deception as a ‘stunt’. […]

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