The view from the bridge

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[…] work with the Pinay Circle (Cercle Pinay) in the 1970s and 80s.9 But the Telegraph fudged Crozier’s links with the CIA, even though in his memoir Free Agent, Crozier is open about them and at one point (p. 92) refers to his ‘case officer’. The Telegraph omitted his work with IRD and in the […]

Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the British State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] comprehensive source for information about this remains Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (London: 4th Estate, 1991). See also Brian Crozier, Free Agent. The Unseen War 1941-1991 (London: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 121-122; Gerald James, In the Public Interest (London: Little Brown, 1995); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016 (see […]

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 […]

A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination by Philip Shenon

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013). of deep reporting. We learn, for instance, that a CIA staffer in Mexico City served in the OSS (the CIA’s precursor) with an agent Julia McWilliams, best known to millions as the celebrated chef Julia Child’. Deep reporting? Big deal! Dean’s concluding paragraph: ‘There is enough uncovered here to give […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

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