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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and 8 9 See note 5 above. See, for example, . 10 […]

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. Lobster magazine, a British publication focused on intelligence and parapolitics, has frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence […]

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 – […]

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