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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the messenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to remind myself of it. After some chapters of autobiography, Cooper has this on p. 27: On the day that I learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that it was the Secret Service agent driving the limo that had shot Kennedy in […]

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[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.27 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich 26 or 27 9 Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco […]

DEADLY BETRAYAL: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq by Dennis Fritz

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] secretive —inner circle: Peter Rodman, Abe Shulsky, William Luti, and Paul Wolfowitz, who was probably the biggest war hawk at the Pentagon. This circle ran a special intelligence unit that undermined the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the CIA, and the State Department’s efforts to find links between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, and to confirm that […]

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[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.24 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment on […]

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[…] the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich 16 or 17 5 Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco returned an indictment on […]

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[…] the long, clunky headline in the Daily Mail on 7 December had it.17 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich Korinets. 16 or 17 5 On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco […]

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[…] the ‘laundromat’ in ‘Londongrad’ for Russian money and the consequent Russian influence on British political life. Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and The first was The Andropov Deception by ‘John Rossiter’ (actually Brian Crozier) in issue 10. There is an interview with the author at . His […]

The liberal apocalypse; or understanding the 70s and 80s

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[PDF file]: […] the course of this Harrison offers a variety of euphemisms: Mrs Thatcher ‘displayed formidable intellectual energy over a long period . . . Colleagues recognised a considerable intelligence of the specialised kind that a democratic politician needs’ (p. 208); had ‘an intelligence too firmly practical for the self-consciously intellectual to feel comfortable with it’ […]

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