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 […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] JFK assassination. However, the FBI’s file on the entire Crisman-Maury Island affair contains a detailed report dated 24 August 1947 by Guy Banister, the Bureau’s SAC (Special Agent in Charge) in Butte, Montana. This is the same Guy Banister who would later turn up in close proximity to Lee Harvey Oswald in New Orleans.16 […]

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 […]

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 […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] again in relation to ‘AQIM’. Abu Qatada was a recruiter for both the EIJ and the Algerian Islamic Group (GIA), and editor of the GIA’s newsletter. MI5 agent Reda Hassaine said: ‘I saw Qatada brainwash young Muslims, living in Britain from Africa, Somalia, 38 MoD, see note 22, p. 16. Center for Strategic and […]

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 […]

View from 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 […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] my review of Brian Crozier’s memoir in Lobster, I asked Google (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + Free Agent’ and got this from Google AI. 16 17 See note 5 above. See, for example, . McCoy had been CIA station chief in Laos. Seymour Hersh […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Seymour Hersh, Reporter (London: Allen Lane, 2018) p. 79. 10 3 (generally better and faster than Lobster’s search engine) for ‘Lobster magazine + Brian Crozier + Free Agent’ and got this from Google AI. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence […]

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