The View from the Bridge

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[…] district attorney and Philip Corbett, ex Metropolitan Police, has found that the Palestinians who organised the bombing met in Malta and planned to ‘divert the blame’ to Libya. According to their source, ‘Ivan’: ‘they would place in a suitcase that could be identified to Malta through its contents in the event that the bomb […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] regrettably it is no longer British – who provided the gift were scrupulous to ensure that by building-in the necessary checks there could be no philatelic profiteering.1 Libya: agent protection issues The top-end end of the SIS lifestyle management service today was exposed earlier this year when Moussa Koussa landed in Britain by private […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]

Churchill’s War Against D-Day by Graeme Bowman

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] anti-communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from Libya to Greece in early 1941 when the success of the British offensive seemed secure – and the subsequent routing of those forces in, and their evacuation […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] officer also seems to have signed–off on the abduction and rendition of opponents of Colonel Muammar al-Gaddafi to help secure an oil deal between the UK and Libya. Norton-Taylor argues that the intelligence services are besotted with the emirates and sultanates of the Gulf. Romanticism has displaced any sense of unease about the crucifixions […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Muhammad Hussan (Akhari) for initial expenses. The remainder of the money was to be paid after successful completion of the mission.”’ 4 After al-Megrahi had departed for Libya, Tam Dalyell made this comment : ‘The Iranian Minister of the interior at the time , was Ali Akbar Mostashemi, who made a public statement that […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Tunworth Media interviews with Shayler in the initial period after he first went public do Aaron Y. Zelin and Andrew Lebovich, ‘Assessing Al-Qa`ida’s Presence in the New Libya’, CTC Sentinel (Vol. 5, Issue 3), March 2012 . 11 See the profile of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group in the Mapping Militant Organizations section of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] chance, the FO shut it down. Curiously enough, no sign of said ‘complex operation’ has ever been made visible, not even in Crozier’s memoir Free Agent. Was Libya responsible for the killing of PC Yvonne Fletcher in 1984? In one of Tony Gosling’s many e-mails was a timely reminder of the 1996 Dispatches documentary […]

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