The view from the bridge

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[…] Infowars is getting a White House press pass.18 Who’s next? David Icke? Spooks ahoy! And there is the delicious if faintly ridiculous story of the Cambridge University Intelligence Seminar, one of whose convenors was Professor Christopher Andrew, the British spooks’ favourite tame academic. One of the commercial sponsors – to the tune of about […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: […] a grenade at me. I killed him with a burst from the Uzi. It ripped his body apart.4 She was recruited by A’man, Israeli Defence Force military intelligence, for her first foray as a spy in 1981. I was to play a non-Jewish shiksa , claiming to be a PLO sympathiser, on an undercover […]

Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for The New York Review of Books and can be found talking about Arnhem, the United Nations and issues of peace and war.5 Urquhart was the chief intelligence officer of the British Airborne Division in 1944 under the command of Major General Frederick – ‘Boy’ – Browning. The second stimulus came through a Polish […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as his link to Wikileaks. Craig Murray has interviewed Credico at […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] analysis of other such data sets in producing a final report. It’s really just a technologically assisted and advanced version of what used to be the traditional intelligence analyst’s role, where reports from sources (both overt and covert) would be read, assessed and collated. Considering that it uses techniques that are so close to […]

MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such a “speedy” manner as to render them unrecognisable’.4In his position as head of counter terrorism, Sir Andrew would have been the person one […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] of pilots meeting UFOs. Where this all going – your speculation would be as good as mine. It does appear that sections of the US military and intelligence community (and their Soviet/Russian equivalents, as reported by Doty) have been sitting on the big story: homo sapiens is not the only intelligent life form in […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has the people and the relationships for SIS to recover. (‘We work with over 200 partner services around the world 1 Sir John defined his products. No intelligence chief does this because they change according to local markets and conditions. 120 Winter 2010 with hugely constructive results.’) PR distraction In the meantime, non-spook colleagues […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and alongside heightened reforms in Guatemala caused a ‘general uneasiness within the Truman administration,’ 9 leading to increased ‘thin’ intelligence gathering.1 0 The duck test N o matter how thin the evidence was, reports of the possibility of Communism in Guatemala continued. Richard Patterson Jr., Truman’s […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Aid Finland, Lord Balfour of Burleigh (Chairman of Lloyds Bank); the Earl of Lytton (Chairman of London Associated Electricity); Sir George MacDonogh (Former Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office and President of Federation of British Industries 1933-1934) and Lord Nuffield. Both the Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK […]

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