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

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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

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[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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

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) […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Even some of the attendees’ military ranks have been released – but all bar one of the names of the people who attended the meetings are ‘ secret’. First let me give you little background . . . Two years ago I was conducting research on stay-behind networks in post WWII Europe – the […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] assassination research now resembles an academic subject area, divided up into subsections: Oswald’s intelligence links; ballistics; the autopsy; the cover-up; JFK’s Vietnam policy; the role of the Secret Service; the anti-Castro Cubans and so on. Hardly any of the Kennedy researchers have been actually looking at who shot Kennedy: in part because most are […]

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