Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on Stonehouse held by the former Czech intelligence service (Státní Bezpečnost, State Security, generally referred to as the StB) which come to opposing conclusions. Actually even ‘using much of the same material’ can’t be […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] of pilots meeting UFOs. Where this 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 […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and alongside heightened reforms in Guatemala caused a ‘general uneasiness within the Truman administration,’ 9 leading to increased ‘thin’ intelligence gathering.1 0 The duck test N o matter how thin the evidence was, reports of the possibility of Communism in Guatemala continued. Richard Patterson Jr., Truman’s […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Aid Finland, Lord Balfour of Burleigh (Chairman of Lloyds Bank); the Earl of Lytton (Chairman of London Associated Electricity); Sir George MacDonogh (Former Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office and President of Federation of British Industries 1933-1934) and Lord Nuffield. Both the Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Or would have worked, had the Soviet Union been conducting nuclear tests prior to August 1949. But by then, the Mogul project had already ended. 1 the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which I got with another naval officer who had had many similar experience and we told our story and […]

Using the UK FOIA, part III

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to use two caveats from the FOIA. The first is Section 27 which, in this case, covers the names of foreign intelligence officers. As the judgement rightly notes, a reliance on Section 27 requires that there be: ‘. . . a real and significant risk that disclosure would […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London. Later, Wynne tries to give the £50 to his controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed that British intelligence had the environs of the Soviet Embassy under photographic surveillance and MI6 could have used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such a “speedy” manner as to render them unrecognisable’.4In his position as head of counter terrorism, Sir Andrew would have been the person one […]

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