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: […]

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 Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] thought to have been involved in a number of OSS operations in Nazi-occupied Europe. Sometime after the war he hooked up with George Hunter White, a buccaneering agent of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, who would provide plenty of work for him. (White had free access to LSD in the early 1950s and was dosing […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] centres and provided cover for MI9 and MI6 officers. It has been suggested that it is through these centres that the 4 Paul Routledge, Public Servant, Secret Agent: The Elusive Life and Violent Death of Airey Neave (London: Fourth Estate, 2002) p. 125 5 See , which is a transcription of the IS9 Historical […]

part 1 best copy

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[…] 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

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[…] 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 […]

GArrick part one best copy

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[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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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