007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] 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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] 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 […]

JFK’s assassination: two stories about fingerprints

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] unfolding, the FBI descended on Dallas and improperly seized control of the investigation and, at around 11.45pm, Lt. Day reluctantly handed the rifle (CE 139) to FBI agent Vince Drain, who departed with it for a flight to Washington DC and FBI headquarters. Drain left without Day’s accompanying fingerprint materials. Lt. Day declined to […]

View from the bridge

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[…] any one time . . .’ At or . In a post below that one he attributes the figure to ‘Warsaw Pact archives’. 14 6 the HVA’s agent network to be established: between the early 1950s and the late 1980s the service ran approximately 6,000 spies in West Germany. The Stasi’s security departments ran […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] about the Clinton emails through highly placed members of the Russian government, and ex-FBI Director James Comey, fired by Trump, even said that Mifsud was a Russian agent. Barr and his boys are operating on a different theory—that Mifsud was part of a setup by the CIA and FBI to smear Trump. Pursuing this […]

View from the bridge

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[…] any one time . . .’ At or . In a post below that one he attributes the figure to ‘Warsaw Pact archives’. 3 2 the HVA’s agent network to be established: between the early 1950s and the late 1980s the service ran approximately 6,000 spies in West Germany. The Stasi’s security departments ran […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] confusing. The English are not the only people who produce eccentrics, and Hastings’s narrative features dozens; best among them probably the British double – or triple – agent Ronald Seth, aptly codenamed ‘Blunderhead’, who gets a chapter to himself. Apart from a liar and a fantasist he was – or portrayed himself as – […]

View ffrom Bridge 89

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[…] 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 […]

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