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: […]

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’. 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 […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] hit the car and JFK was struck by accident. 9 This was the bullet recently revealed to have been found in the limousine by a Secret Service agent. See, for example, . 10 It doesn’t really matter whether or not Oswald actually owned a Mannlicher-Carcano, or if the picture of him holding one was […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] hit the car and JFK was struck by accident. 9 This was the bullet recently revealed to have been found in the limousine by a Secret Service agent. See, for example, . 10 It doesn’t really matter whether or not Oswald actually owned a Mannlicher-Carcano, or if the picture of him holding one was […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] known as Martin Ingram. See, for starters, . The reliability of Hurst/Ingram’s stories in unclear to me. Republican sources have tried to discredit Ingram, mainly because of what he has said about the British agent Steaknife. On which see, for example, . Evidently the Irish government thought him worth talking to. 11 See 12 farce.

Inside the AARB, Volume IV by Douglas P. Horne

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] some other original film was created and altered while the ‘other’ Zapruder footage was being moved around Dallas. Or, it also occurred to me, that a CIA agent posing as a Secret Service agent acting as a delivery boy might not have known or cared about the difference between ‘developed’ and ‘printed’. After examining […]

LSD-IRA? David Solomon, James Joseph McCann and Operation Julie

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of a bank in Dublin. This led to their outing by the Irish press as MI6 assets.25 In the same period MI6 was exposed for running an agent inside the Garda Special Branch after he was arrested in Dublin for passing on top-secret files to MI6.26 22 Walsh, (see note 13) ch. 6, ‘Over […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

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