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 […]

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 […]

German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Avikat in 1961 via the Belgian-Congolese trading company MITRACO. Its owner was the retired Belgian Colonel Jean Cassart, who, in the late 1950s, had become Dornier’s sales agent for Katanga. Negotiations for buying several DO-28As had already started in July 1960. On 24 February 1961 MITRACO placed an order, and on 10 August the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Zakariyah Rahman was sentenced to a minimum term of 30 years for plotting to kill British Prime Minister, Theresa May. Initially, ‘Rahman made contact with an FBI agent posing as an IS official online, who introduced him to an MI5 role-player.’16 The jury took thirteen hours to reach their decision and, after he was […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is it credible that Ian Cameron, a senior MI5 officer, did not tell his superiors in London about Brian Gemmell’s report and that he was running an agent inside ‘Tara’? The transcript of a call made to the RUC’s Confidential Telephone on 23 May 1973 shows that senior police officers, including the Head of […]

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