The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] is pretty good. 12 6 truth: Spooks, now and then Cryptome is the Website of John Young, who has been publishing information about states and especially their intelligence services for about 15 years.14 He recently published a list of putative MI6 officers15 and I was struck by how little it interested me. In 1989 […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] from the general public. For the record, I do not believe any such thing. It has been amply demonstrated that stories about UFOs and extraterrestrials serve various intelligence bodies as a useful way of discrediting people or other organisations. It is this discrediting tactic that is the focus of the present work. 1: Flights […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] even China – comes close to challenging the United States in power and influence. The US’s strength lies in its power to bribe, the breadth of its intelligence agencies, its sophisticated public relations operations, and especially its military might. Consequently, it is the ambition of US businesses, using the military as a vehicle, to […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

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[PDF file]: […] information about James Angleton, James McCord (one of the early Olson investigators and later a Watergate burglar), William Colby, Richard Helms, William Donovan, Allen Dulles (later the intelligence community’s ‘minder’ on the Warren Commission, who had earlier been sacked from the CIA by JFK) and many others, including Dr Harold Abramson and the Dr […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]

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