The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] including the Daily Mail, The Times and The Spectator. See . 27 ‘I can’t in all conscience vote for any of them’, 1 November 2019. or 28 embassy in London and its assets.29 Why has the MSM failed so completely at this? Maybe one day some of those involved at editorial level will explain […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] recently, a story from the Guardian on the family of one Charles Thomas. He was a CIA officer in the 1960s and was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. Essentially, the adult children of the late Mr Thomas are hoping that President Trump will release documents produced by the Mexico City CIA […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] with Lobster 11 (1986). 27 8 IRD. After the election of Allende, British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home told IRD specialist A. S. Dyer (based at the British Embassy in Santiago) to cooperate with FWF there, indicating concern at the top of the British government about the turn events had taken in Chile. FWF was […]

view from bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] a family with a tradition of interest in Cold War intelligence work, propaganda and covert action. His father Joseph Godson was Labour attaché at the United States embassy in London in the 1950s and used his influence to promote the interest of the pro-US Avraham Burg, The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] any financial institution, the management board of VTB includes a range of personalities but in prominent positions are Andrei Kostin, formerly in ‘diplomatic service’ at the USSR embassy in London 1985-1990, during which time he presumably knew Alexander Lebedev the current proprietor of The Evening Standard and The Independent, Vasily Titor, who ‘worked in […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] of Dominic Sandbrook’s 2019 account of the early years of Mrs Thatcher, Who Dares Wins. Yes, the title is meant to evoke the SAS and the Iranian Embassy siege but it also represents Sandbrook’s view that Mrs T had come to rescue Blighty from decline.1 And after 40 years of Thatcherite policies of low […]

Failed Führers: A History of Britain’s Extreme Right by Graham Macklin

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] subsidies from the United Arab Republic (UAR), including finance for an off-shore pirate radio station to broadcast his racism and anti-Semitism. The military attaché at the UAR embassy was very sympathetic, but nothing came of it. (p. 281) Jordan was obsessed with Rudolf Hess, urging that he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of ‘directed energy’ is also endorsed by a group of scientists who concluded that microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power […]

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