View from Bridge 87

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[…] Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.27 The article’s subheading piles it on: ‘Secret Meeting with British MI6 Head Richard Moore Points to the Likelihood That Zelensky Is a British Intelligence Agent’. This was the first paragraph: In October 2020, on a visit to […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] attesting to the presence of the foreign bodies.39 After Perrin, have a look at Katherine Horton PhD, another apparent TI, who actually got a legal case against MI6, GCHQ et al, to court. She didn’t win but the transcripts of the proceedings are on-line and illustrate the difficulties such cases present, even with what […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] TrumpRussia Dossier’, New York Times, 11 January 2017. No evidence has surfaced to corroborate these widely reported allegations, which appeared in an opposition research memos by former MI6 officer Christopher Steele. It remains to be seen whether Trump’s electoral success reflects a sea change in public attitudes or simply his unique ability to flout […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to try and combat Russian disinformation’. ‘Nonsense’, wrote Klarenberg. ‘IFS/II was a NATO/ MI6 front organisation concerned with starting war with Russia.’ or 1 1 Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to try and combat Russian disinformation’. ‘Nonsense’, wrote Klarenberg. ‘IFS/II was a NATO/ MI6 front organisation concerned with starting war with Russia.’ or 1 1 Well no, actually, it wasn’t. Begun in 2015, apparently as a response to the Russian […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] p. 127. 1 Jewish Chronicle, London, 15 January 2016: 2 Tamara Deutscher, preface to the Non-Jewish Jew And Other Essays, (London: Verso, 2017). 3 assistant chief of MI6 had released a large amount of hard currency to persuade Tancred Borenius to take a flight to neutral Portugal. From there he took a dangerous journey […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the same as being a spy. During the war Ian Fleming knew Philby when he served as the MI6 man in the Iberian peninsula (that included Spain and Portugal), and Fleming was the Assistant to the Chief of British Naval Intelligence Admiral Godfrey. Fleming had […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] extension of SIS, this appointment added some little credence to the notion that John Smith, like his Glasgow University contemporary Baroness ‘Meta’ Ramsay, had been recruited by MI6 while a student.28 It might also help make intelligible Smith’s role on the Bilderberg steering group. What is The Guardian? An interesting piece on The Guardian […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the same as being a spy. During the war Ian Fleming knew Philby when he served as the MI6 man in the Iberian peninsula (that included Spain and Portugal), and Fleming was the Assistant to the Chief of British Naval Intelligence Admiral Godfrey. Fleming had […]

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