The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; terrorism, genocide, espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

Spookaroonie!

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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] it possible that he was kept out of the loop? We simply don’t know. This one might run and run but these days, who knows? 52 https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-security/cia-cryptoencryption-machines- espionage/ 53 See, for example, or < https://www.quora.com/Where-didall-of-the-thousands-of-Enigma-machines-end-up-after-the-end-of-WW2> 54 Nick Must commented: It is mentioned, very briefly, in the ‘After the War’ section of the Enigma History […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; terrorism, genocide, espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] who needs political satire?’13 The sub-heading, ‘What synchronicity: a WikiLeaks dump, helpful to Trump, in the same week as a As given by Richard Bennett in his Espionage: Spies and Secrets (London: Virgin Books, 2002): ‘a FLOATER: A freelance agent used for a one-off or occasional intelligence operation. Usually a low-level operative such as […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] investigates their leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

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