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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Reading. See his biographical page at ” 7 . Garrick Alder alerted me to this. 8 2 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 mass propaganda in the context of the First World War and the Russian […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

A bullet to the head for the James Files JFK ‘confession’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] article shows how the hoax took shape, and illuminates the overlooked proof that the story is a lie.
 
 Enter West and Vernon In 1978, Chicago FBI Agent Zach Shelton was put to work investigating an inter-state hijacking gang, of which Files was the ringleader. The hijackers were unsophisticated, simply overpowering lorry drivers at […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’4 Oh, really? I had a look at Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent (HarperCollins, 1993). At . Teacher writes that ‘the most important additions being CIA files declassified in January this year revealing Jean Violet’s true identity, and the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] William Donovan, Sir William Stephenson and President Kennedy. He also dwells on the overall popularity of the books and movies. As for the name of his secret agent 007, Shakespeare and others have thrown out dozens of names of real secret agents who they say were the model for 007. Shakespeare even comes up […]

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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