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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] organisation capable of tackling modern-day threats dies aged 63’. It included this line: ‘A lifelong Labour supporter and former Young Socialist, Ritchie saw no contradiction between his intelligence work and his egalitarian ideals.’2 A pinko spook? We have come a long way in the lifetime of this journal! *new* All our yesterdays I have […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]

Miscellaneous reviews

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] of the MI6 plot in the summer of 1995 – approximately eight to nine months before the assassination attempt took place. There where subsequently a number of intelligence coordination meetings between MI5 and MI6 where Shayler says mentions were made of progress – e.g. funding being in place. Annie Machon’s book on their experiences […]

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[…] has come in for criticism from some of the other researchers.14 Trump and Russia Former British diplomat, Arthur Snell, returned to the question of Trump and Russian intelligence in his ‘Let’s talk about Krasnov: It’s time to take a serious 10 or 11 12 13 See or . 14 4 look at the evidence […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] of Pink Floyd fame) wondering if the Hamas attack on Israel was a false flag attack.8 I confess I did initially wonder if the much vaunted Israeli intelligence services had let it happen. Surely the Palestinian populations were completely penetrated by human and electronic means? Apparently not. Back to the notion of a false […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] the attacks, while ignoring an oil rich ally which had everything to do with them. The justification for war is based on some witches’ brew of faulty intelligence, concocted intelligence and ignored good intelligence. Decent people are forced to lie on an international stage. All sensible advice is ignored and rabid neo-con draft dodgers […]

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