The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 15 years by conspiracy theories, many of which were obvious nonsense.9 I wonder if some smart alecs in the White House, or its allies in the US intelligence community, didn’t help to create or propagate them. Jonathan Marshall W hen Lobster began in 1983 there were only two similar publications: Intelligence and Parapolitics out […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] also about my life.’ (p. 4) Snowden’s explanation for his actions is simple: the online privacy of everyone US House of Representatives (House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence – HSPCI), Review of the Unauthorized Disclosures of Former National Security Contractor Edward Snowden (U), September 15, 2016, pp. i-ii. (hereafter: HSPCI, Review) 1 The crimes […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] Rabat, Riyadh, and Abu Dhabi. No embassies, no consulates, no foreign service officers on the ground. Israel’s chief point contact with these wary allies was its international intelligence service, the Mossad. “Mossad is in charge of building diplomatic connections with the regimes where we don’t have a diplomatic relationship,” one former Israeli intelligence commander […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or 2 or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] argued that it was all a giant deception operation. 4 or 5 2 and was not involved in the Kennedy assassination and told the Agency that Soviet intelligence had no interest in Oswald.6 This message was welcomed by most because it bolstered the ‘lone assassin’ verdict in the killing of Kennedy. But CIA counterintelligence […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] argued that it was all a giant deception operation. 4 or 5 2 and was not involved in the Kennedy assassination and told the Agency that Soviet intelligence had no interest in Oswald.6 This message was welcomed by most because it bolstered the ‘lone assassin’ verdict in the killing of Kennedy. But CIA counterintelligence […]

View from Bridge 88 copy

Lobster Issue

[…] pilots meeting UFOs. Where this is all going – your speculation would be as good as mine. It does appear that sections of the US military and intelligence community (and their Soviet/Russian equivalents, as reported by Doty) have been sitting on the big story: homo sapiens is not the only intelligent life form in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
To access this content, you must subscribe to Lobster (click for details).

[PDF file]: […] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather than explicit: the apparent failure of American and British intelligence. I have to write ‘apparent’ because, with the exception of the invasion of Iraq, where we have seen glimpses of the intelligence and may get more […]

Accessibility Toolbar