View from Lob 73

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 from 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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