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: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

GArrick part one best copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the target access – access, in this instance, meaning access to an audience. The thrust of all the attacks was to paint Lira as a Russian intelligence agent and discredit his work as enemy propaganda. No substantive evidence whatsoever that Lira was any kind of Russian state operative was offered during his lifetime, and […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] do you suppose she found so shattering in a summary of its contents? Dallas again Dallas again In September 2023 a memoir by former US Secret Service agent Paul Landis was published in which he said he found the Kennedy assassination’s so-called ‘magic bullet’ on the top of the back seat of the presidential […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue

[…] book but I have barely skimmed the Angels book. The CIA book reworks in extraordinary detail a number of the incidents in Oswald’s career as a CIA agent? asset? – which isn’t clear. The Angels book is about Cuba and the beginnings of the CIA’s attempts to overthrow Fidel Castro. It has no bearing […]

Garrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] the target access – access, in this instance, meaning access to an audience. The thrust of all the attacks was to paint Lira as a Russian intelligence agent and discredit his work as enemy propaganda. No substantive evidence whatsoever that Lira was any kind of Russian state operative was offered during his lifetime, and […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam’s attempts to solicit campaign funds from Saddam Hussein’s ruling Ba’ath party, made through a French-Australian publisher go-between who was secretly a KGB agent and who stole the huge sum of money (some $3m by today’s value) that Iraqi intelligence paid into a Hong Kong bank account. The KGB agent […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] the target access – access, in this instance, meaning access to an audience. The thrust of all the attacks was to paint Lira as a Russian intelligence agent and discredit his work as enemy propaganda. No substantive evidence whatsoever that Lira was any kind of Russian state operative was offered during his lifetime, and […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] the target access – access, in this instance, meaning access to an audience. The thrust of all the attacks was to paint Lira as a Russian intelligence agent and discredit his work as enemy propaganda. No substantive evidence whatsoever that Lira was any kind of Russian state operative was offered during his lifetime, and […]

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