The Atlantic Semantic

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] sister of Max (a council member of Brian Crozier’s ISC and also with the Committee for the Free World). During WW2 Nora Beloff had worked for Political Intelligence at the Foreign Office, and her attacks on the extreme left of the Labour Party had the backing of David Astor.4 Michael Crick drew on Beloff, […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] of ‘Who struck John’ is mentioned in Peter Usowski, ‘The White House, Richard Helms, and Watergate: A Clash between Executive Power and Organizational Responsibility’ in Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] of ‘Who struck John’ is mentioned in Peter Usowski, ‘The White House, Richard Helms, and Watergate: A Clash between Executive Power and Organizational Responsibility’ in Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 40 Quoted in David Talbot, Brothers: […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Leeden Michael Ledeen’s death in May this year produced a flurry of articles about him. Not discussed, in those I read, was Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me […]

Her Majesty’s secret servants

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] MI6 officer Mark Allen. This culminated publicly in the rapprochement symbolised by Gadaffi and Prime Minister Blair embracing in 2004; and privately in the British security and intelligence services helping to send back anti-Gadaffi activists (one from the 1996 group paid by MI6) to their Libyan equivalents for torture.3 As part of the fallout […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] of ‘Who struck John’ is mentioned in Peter Usowski, ‘The White House, Richard Helms, and Watergate: A Clash between Executive Power and Organizational Responsibility’ in Studies in Intelligence, Vol. 66, No. 2 (Extracts, June 2022) at . Usowiski’s interpretation is the same as mine. Garrick Alder spotted this. 8 Quoted at and in David […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] Leeden Michael Ledeen’s death in May this year produced a flurry of articles about him. Not discussed in those I read was Ledeen’s possible relationship with Israeli intelligence. Which is odd, really, for Israel’s interests run through his career as an interface between US state and non-state officials and Israel. Google AI gave me […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the UK.1 Dee served in the RAF from 1953 to 1958, spending much of this time in the Middle East, culminating in his being attached to RAF Intelligence in Baghdad in 1957-1958. This was a critical period that saw the UK humiliated by the USA during the Suez crisis in late 1956. At its […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] election.10 ‘Deep State coup’ theorists had been disputing the Russian hacking allegations since 2016, deploying two main lines of attack. The first was to reject the US intelligence community’s claims on the grounds they had a history of lying and they had failed to provide any evidence. The second line of attack was to […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] by Ian Fleming, foreign manager of Kemsley Newspapers between 1945 and 1959. Suspicion eventually centred on Donald McCormick, a part-timer who had worked with Fleming in Naval Intelligence during the war and, under the pseudonym Richard Deacon, published nearly 60, often unreliable, books on 1 2 Harold Evans, My Paper Chase, (Little Brown, New […]

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