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

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

THEY KNEW: how a culture of conspiracy keep America complacent by Sarah Kendzior

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[PDF file]: […] prevented dark truths from being told’. (p. 53) Kendzior, who sees her job as investigating ‘the conspiracies of the powerful’, has earned her denunciation as a CIA agent, an agent of the Kremlin, a member of Hamas, of the Yakuza, of the IRA and of Al Qaeda. She has even been accused of being […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

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[PDF file]: […] Forsyth, Roald Dahl or (more obviously) the pseudonymous John Le Carré. It might be simply coincidence that Burgess’s publisher (Heinemann) was also Graham Greene’s, and that Burgess’s agent, Peter Janson-Smith, was also Ian Fleming’s. Burgess in Leningrad T he aspects of Burgess’s Leningrad visit that are of interest here can be related briefly, since […]

South of the border

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[PDF file]: […] it works. 18 See ‘Dominic Cummings Sets Up New Tech Consultancy Company’ by Giles Turner at or . 19 20 See . 6 Donald Trump the un-intelligent agent All this discussion about whether Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy! I’m not saying that I don’t think he’s capable of being a traitorous bastard, […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] Russianfriendly accounts and Trumpkins has been going on for some time.” If that was true, it meant that anyone expressing support for Donald Trump might be an agent of the Russian government, whether or not the person intended to play that role. It meant that the people they called “Trumpkins,” who made up half […]

Newsinger on Patel

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[…] ‘the abuses of today are orders of magnitude larger – and more dangerous’. Russiagate, the attempt to destroy Trump ‘through false claims that he was a Russian agent’, was ‘the biggest political conspiracy in American history’. And as for the raid on Mar-a-Lago carried out by the FBI in August 2021, this ‘makes Watergate […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] was the Soviets’ initial 66 67 The source of these reports is not known but my guess would be it was Morris Childs, who was an FBI agent in the CPUSA and that party’s main link with the Soviets. 68 69 Oddly, this was the only book on the assassination I read in the […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

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[…] the right man. The way this is framed in the book paints a picture, to my cynical mind, of Taylor being distinctly naïve: Some years ago my agent, Annabel Merullo of Peters Fraser and Dunlop, said it was time I wrote another book. I said I needed to find a suitable subject first. Astonishingly […]

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