The View from the Bridge

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[…] to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would ‘duplicate’ the existing oversight provided by the Intelligence and Security Committee. Thus the beauty of the ISC from the state’s perspective: it provides the appearance of accountability and scrutiny while actually providing neither. Its […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the mesenger 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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] piece is one of a number kept in CIA files and released as a result of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, established in 1975 and chaired by Senator Frank Church. It can be found on page 6 of the scanned documents available at . 13 4 […]

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[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.36 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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[…] first omission is the substantial political underpinning to the government’s assault on the NUM. For the previous 20 years or so a lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

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[…] and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. 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 […]

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[…] in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter- intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted to […]

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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 […]

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