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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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[…] or brain image indications to explain those widely varied symptoms. The JAMA findings 6 or Simon Matthews spotted this. 7 4 follow the 2023 release of an intelligence community assessment that found that the injuries were not the result of foreign attacks. More likely, the assessment suggested, they were tied to previous injuries, stress, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for denying Wuhan lab leak theory was censored by security officials’.1 Owen reported: Security officials censored a submission to the Covid Inquiry which highlighted the failure of intelligence agents to gather evidence which points to the virus having originated in a laboratory in Wuhan . The heavily criticised £200 million inquiry by Baroness Hallett […]

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 […]

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