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 […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely a word about LBJ’s possible role made it into public consciousness for thirty? forty? years after the event. Why? The political mainstream did […]

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 […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely a word about LBJ’s possible role made it into public consciousness for thirty? forty? years after the event. Why? The political mainstream did […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] E. Howard Hunt. Madeleine Brown, LBJ’s mistress. Barr McClellan, a Dallas lawyer. Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater. Gen. Joseph J. Cappucci, the head of Air Force Counter Intelligence. And yet barely a word about LBJ’s possible role made it into public consciousness for thirty? forty? years after the event. Why? The political mainstream did […]

The Sleep Room: A Very British Medical Scandal by Jon Stock

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] who were confined to the Sleep Room. It’s unfathomable that this ‘treatment’ was allowed to continue for so long. The Sleep Room was possibly funded by the intelligence services while Ewen Cameron’s very similar Sleep Room in Montreal, which was run at the same time, most certainly was. (Stock gives a detailed account of […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA Jonathan Marshall Alliances between the Central Intelligence Agency and organized crime in
 the United States remain some of the most closely guarded secrets of the
 Cold War era. The Agency went to extraordinary lengths to cover up its recruitment of leading U.S. mobsters in 1960 to assassinate […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] in their book The Blair Revelation (Spokesman, Nottingham, 1996) that Powell’s job in the British embassy in Washington concealed a role as the liaison officer between British intelligence and the CIA, but they have no evidence. Powell’s career summary as given in The Diplomatic Service List for 1995 contains nothing from which to definitely […]

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 […]

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