View from the bridge

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[…] shocking was the existence of Biopreparat, the agency running the enormous clandestine biological weapons program. The US had no clue this even existed. The existence of two secret Main KGB Directorates: the 10th and the 14th. The job of the 10th was to protect Biopreparat and the 14th had to spy and check up […]

Misc reviews

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] (Oregon):TrineDay, 2009, $24.95 (USA) Dr. T. P. Wilkinson When I was a child the older daughter of my father’s best friend was reading a book called The Secret Language. I remember searching for the book in the school library, but failing to find it, begged Susan to lend me her copy. At that age […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Burke see see or For Pettus see . File TSCH/3/S17401D/63 lists Kennedy’s personal security detail among whom are John Roberts (CIA, London Embassy) and John Sullivan (US Secret Service). 7 Rather like President Biden today, whose ancestors left for the US at the same time as Kennedy’s. 8 2 Productions were particularly keen. Their […]

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

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] something? *new* Open conspiracy? I’ve received comments about my use of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’ to describe the Israel lobby’s activities in this country. Are conspiracies not secret by definition? Yes, in a sense they are. Hence the impact of the phrase ‘open conspiracy’. I first came across it in The Open Conspirator, a […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] at the very moment the attacks took place.5 Graham and Goss went on to co-lead the 9/11 Commission and oversee its final report, the notorious 28 still secret pages of which have drawn so much suspicion and curiosity. It’s been rumoured for over a decade that the withheld pages at least strongly suggest Saudi […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Media in Britain Richard Norton-Taylor London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2020, £20 h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the shadows. But in Norton-Taylor’s highly believable […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and expansion of these events worth reading, ‘The Marcia Smith Story – The President’s UFO Study’. This details President Carter’s failure to get access to the government’s secret UFO materials. He was told he didn’t need to know . . . . See . 2 the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.. On […]

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