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

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE
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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 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 […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 5 Mark Mazzetti, Eric Schmitt and Robert F. Worth, ‘Two Year Manhunt led to Killing of Awlaki in Yemen’, New York Times, 30 September 2011. 6 ‘ Secret Desert Mercenary Force Set Up by Arab Sheik by Blackwater Founder’, Daily Mail, 15 May 2011 (reporter not identified). See also, www.blog.index/oncensorship.org/2011/03/18/bahraini-blog-fathergoes-missing-police-raid-familys-home/ 7 Amy Goodman, ‘Stratfor, […]

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 […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] story. The attack had been massaged to fit into the restrictions imposed by the President’s orders. The Report claimed that the raid had been staged from ‘a secret base in the Caribbean’. Which was true insofar as (a) Florida is in the Caribbean and (b) the fact that the base was in Florida was […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

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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 […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Germans are hiding something. I don’t think Hess’s flight to England is really an escape from Germany at all. I think he must actually be on a secret mission from Hitler to negotiate with the English about cutting short the war in the West to free Hitler’s hands for the push East. Stalin heard […]

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 […]

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