View from the bridge

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[…] Knew too Much 6 . See, for example, . 7 Not sure which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 Health and Social Secretary Wes Streeting said, after announcing another inquiry into social care: We will have cross-party talks next […]

Deception and distraction strategies relating to the John F Kennedy Assassination

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] FBI saying they looked into this case because of “a potential violation of federal law under our jurisdiction that we did investigate”, the Bureau neither investigated the espionage angle they opened the file for, nor any of the potential violations of federal law involved in forging government documents.’12 This is self-evidently significant. A major […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Knew too Much 6 . See, for example, . 7 Not sure which wag came up with that. I think it was in one of the excellent espionage novels by Olen Steinhauer. 8 2 We will have cross-party talks next month. And I’m really encouraged by the fact that since the election, the Conservatives, […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] really review them. However, there are some things I can say about them. I’m not quite sure why but I have never taken Gordon Thomas’s books on espionage and parapolitics seriously. Partly, it is just that he writes a lot, and I don’t trust people who are prolific in these fields because this material […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 106 Jim Hougan, Secret Agenda, pp. 85-95; Anderson and Gibson, Peace, War, and Politics, pp. 233-241. 107 Feldstein, Poisoning the Press, p. 280. 108 James McCord, ‘Counter- Espionage Agent for the Republicans: The True Story of the Watergate Case’, in House Armed Services, Special Subcommittee on Intelligence, Inquiry into the Alleged Involvement of the […]

TO CATCH A SPY: How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Is it simply that Wright (and others) were not privy to the recordings? Initially Tate takes the reader on a journey through the post-WW2 history of Soviet espionage in the UK: Philby, Burgess and Maclean, Blunt etc. This is the necessary background to Peter Wright’s obsessive hunt for Soviet ‘moles’. Tate then steers us […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Deputy Supreme Allied Commander of NATO forces in Europe, General Sir Jeremy MacKenzie, plus a former Special Branch member whose police career included ‘responsibilities in counter-terrorism, counter- espionage, counter-subversion and counter-proliferation’.5 3 Attempts at industry regulation In 2001, then Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government 51 See Chris Slater, ‘Danny Fitzsimons: Iraq security guard “claimed […]

Garrick part 2

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Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain – part 2 V: The dogs of war You have to recognise that, you should tell people, that so much of the social media content that they are getting, that is popping up on their feeds or what-have-you . . . . It’s deliberately done. No different to what […]

Dirty Tricks Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA by Shane O’Sullivan

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was not exactly where the political Did we need the 22 pages the author devotes to Hunt’s biography? In it we learn a great deal about Hunt’s espionage novels and the fact that Hunt took the job with the White House because he needed to pay hospital bills for a daughter with a long-term […]

The book of Trespass by Nick Hayes

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] (‘Good Queen Bess’ according to the mainstream media of the day). It turns she was not only an instigator of the burning of witches. She deployed state-backed espionage and torture, including the use of paid informers and the interception of mail. She also murdered her sister and encouraged state piracy, plundering and the licensing […]

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