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 […]

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[…] – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 Not that any of this is secret. The House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee’s 2020 report Russia analysed the creation of the ‘laundromat’ in London for the washing of dodgy money.3 That report noted: The money was […]

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[…] in it.14 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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[…] 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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[…] 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 […]

The economic crisis continues

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the mistakes of history, you simply repeat them.’ 21 Enter the spooks On 3 February the American magazine Manufacturing and Technology News reported: ‘The Director for National Intelligence is undertaking a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on the state of American manufacturing. Growing concern over loss of domestic capability and dependence on foreign nations 20 […]

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

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[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 […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] are the chances of there being anything significant about the assassination on official US paper anywhere? Assuming, for the sake of argument, that somewhere within the US intelligence community there is institutional knowledge of whodunit,4 we may also assume that nothing will be left on paper which points towards the assassination conspiracy (if anything […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

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[PDF file]: […] 9 Olaf’s father was apparently a Stasi officer,10 and it seems that Olaf was inspired to follow in his footsteps. As is the case with many other intelligence and security agencies, literal patronage was a preferential pathway for potential Stasi recruits. Perhaps the best-known instance of this structural nepotism is to be found in […]

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