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[…] about political corruption. I’d research all this material and think, “What?! Another Russian spy donating to the Tories?” or “Boris Johnson really flew to the former KGB agent Alexander Lebedev’s Italian villa while foreign minister without any aides present? He made Lebedev Junior a Lord? Cameron lobbies for Chinese interests? Blair lobbies for everyone? […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

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Contents Lobster 58 When the Lights Went Out Britain in the Seventies Andy Beckett London: Faber and Faber, 2009, £20.00 7 See Brian Crozier, Free Agent (London: HarperCollins,1993) pp. 131-133. 8 Andrew writes on p. 638 that MI5 was ‘becoming increasingly worried about…..Unison.’ Page 142 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 Strange Days Indeed Francis Wheen […]

‘We did good work together’: JFK in Ireland, 1963

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[PDF file]: […] Carr and his career see or . In this he states that his responsibilities included ‘the possibilities of desalting sea water with nuclear power as a heat agent’ and ‘the Kennedy Foundation had sponsored some studies and it had been shown that mental retardation apparently has some connection with protein deficiency during pregnancy and […]

Secret Justice: Public Interest Immunity Certificates (PIICs) and their use in the Asil Nadir trials

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[…] Leonnig reported in her recent book on the Secret Service the person who was telling JAMES ROWLEY what to do was Rufus Youngblood, the personal Secret Service agent for President Lyndon Johnson. LBJ, Youngblood and Rowley all had to know about Abraham Bolden and why he was such a threat to the cover up […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, […]

Running Rings

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