The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] it. Not so. A few weeks went by and another person tried to attach himself to me, this time claiming to be to be a former MI5 agent who would spill the beans. But he was ill, so ill, and the NHS in London was so bad . . .This goes on for some […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] claims that Gaitskell, a pro-American, had been assassinated by the KGB in order to install a communist sympathiser as probable future prime minister. Anatoly Golitsyn, a Soviet agent who had defected to the West, claimed that Wilson had been acting as a KGB informer after visiting Russia in the late 1940s as President of […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document for us to read. Here’s the list: Robert Landis, the Secret Service agent who recently admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document for us to read. Here’s the list: Robert Landis, the Secret Service agent who recently admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] Rather than cite the sources, Morrow has posted copies of the relevant page or document for us to read. Here’s the list: Robert Landis, the Secret Service agent who recently admitted finding ‘the magic bullet’ in the presidential limo, says some of the Secret Service agents thought this. Jackie Kennedy and her mother. JFK’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] it. Not so. A few weeks went by and another person tried to attach himself to me, this time claiming to be to be a former MI5 agent who would spill the beans. But he was ill, so ill, and the NHS in London was so bad . . .This goes on for some […]

View from Lob 73

Lobster Issue

[…] the Guardian’s journalists.19 But the material is all worthwhile – even the page in which Robin Whittaker presents Chapman Pincher’s case that Roger Hollis was a Soviet agent. I don’t agree with the thesis but it is interesting to meet it again. On the down side, there’s a jokey tone to some of it […]

Powers, Angleton, Morley and Dallas

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who was the CIA’s Domestic Contacts Division officer in Dallas at the time of the assassination. After graduating from Princeton, Ford joined the CIA as a career agent assigned to the office of Training, except for the one year he was assigned to Task Force W to work with RFK on the covert actions […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] if it was a microwave beam or a sonic beam which was being used. One little detail in the piece tells us it is microwaves. A FBI agent who was attacked reports that the beam caused her phone’s battery to expand and break the phone’s casing. I know nothing of the physics involved here […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] charge on this site. *new* SIS obit On 24 November The Times published an obituary of the MI6 officer Paul Ritchie.1 It had the clunky subhead ‘Senior agent at the forefront of transforming an agency focused on espionage into a global organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: […]

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