Peer group pressure

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] from an ‘apocalyptic cyber attack’).8 BlueVoyant’s Executive Chair is Thomas Glocer, a former CEO of Reuters and a director of Morgan Stanley, 9 a director of K2 Intelligence and the Atlantic Council, amongst other things. Chief Operating Officer of Bluevoyant is Jim Penrose who worked in the National Security Agency (NSA) for 17 years, […]

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[…] network An anonymous correspondent asked me if I had seen Daniela Richterova’s Watching the Jackals: Prague’s Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and Revolutionaries (Georgetown Studies in Intelligence History).9 I hadn’t; but from the Amazon summary it sounds rather interesting: Richterova unveils the story of Prague’s engagement with various factions of the Palestine Liberation […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] the American model of politics. If you copy America, you get America The best and the brightest (not) There are some dumb, short-sighted fucks working in the intelligence services. Look at the CIA operation to run a fake vaccination drive in Abbotabad in the attempt to verify that Osama Bin Laden was living there. […]

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[…] in the foreseeable future must be close to zero. UFOs and the USAF So we now have a parade of former US Air Force (USAF) and US intelligence personnel telling the world that yes, the UFO thing is real – even commonplace – for the US military but it has all been covered-up for […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Morgan and Nelson, loyal to the crown, who would reaffirm England as a world power, wipe out the shame of the Burgess-Maclean defections, and reestablish the Secret Intelligence Service as the most dangerous Secret Service . . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James […]

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[…] Morgan and Nelson, loyal to the crown, who would reaffirm England as a world power, wipe out the shame of the Burgess-Maclean defections, and reestablish the Secret Intelligence Service as the most dangerous Secret Service . . . (pp. 403 and 445) 3 So the real mission of Ian Fleming’s Secret Agent 007, James […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent of Kenneth de Courcy.8 Like du Berrier, de Courcy had some interesting early experiences in politics/ intelligence and parlayed this into a subscription-based newsletter which purported to show the world as it really is. De Courcy had interesting snippets but wasn’t reliable as […]

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[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Glen Sample writes on p. 178: During the research and investigation phase of this book I had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community, who told me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up the […]

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[…] General William Barr in 2019 to investigate the origins of the FBI’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. He was tasked to determine if intelligence collection involving the Trump campaign was ‘lawful and appropriate’. The appointment was an expression of the suspicion of some – the certainty of others – within […]

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