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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 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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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 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Journalism, shows that in 2010: 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. […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Bug Democrats’ Office Here’. The story by police reporter Alfred E. Lewis began: Five men, one of whom said he is a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency, were arrested at 2:30 a.m. yesterday in what authorities described as an elaborate plot to bug the offices of the Democratic National Committee here. It […]

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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Lobster Issue

[…] 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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[…] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 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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