View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] dots . . . I received an email from Kit Klarenberg, who is mentioned below in the column. Klarenberg is a prolific writer on British and US intelligence operations and politics. He took exception to my describing the British government’s Institute for Statecraft (and the Integrity Initiative which it created) as an attempt ‘to […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] one of the factors that pushed ‘me away from government service’ (p. 91). After more than twenty years in MI6, Steele retired and set up a private intelligence agency, Orbis. What Steele wants us to believe is that somehow Orbis was a force for good. In fact, the outfit seems to have started out […]

Who really killed Chris Hani? by Chris Nicholson

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]

A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11

Lobster Issue

[PDF file]: […] as much as half of the funding -the KLA’s leap to power) Kosovo Liberation Army; Yasenev ‘04 Times (London), 3/24/99 Anton Surikov (the GRU agent Russian military intelligence whose study Crime in Russia on the extraordinary extent to which the Colombian cartel has targeted Russia was published by King’s College London followed by an […]

Chris Hani book

Lobster Issue

[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly when the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) is quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; […]

The Gloucester Horror

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] cover might stand for. National Archives staff were able to offer no solution. D/CIA was of course the official designation of the Director of the USA’s Central Intelligence Agency, who in 1986 would have been William J Casey (died 1987). At the time, the office was designated DCI (Director of Central Intelligence), until finally […]

Presstitutes: Embedded in the Pay of the CIA. A Confession from The Profession by Udo Ulfkotte

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] is almost nothing about the CIA in the book. So it’s being marketed under false pretences. The book’s original German title translates as Bought Journalists: How Politicians, Intelligence Agencies and High Finance Control Germany’s Mass Media. The author – who died of a heart attack in 2017 – has a Wikipedia entry in English.2 […]

Chris Hani book copy

Lobster Issue

[…] Research (SAIMR), but it is so incompetently done I abandoned it after reading/skimming a third of its 450 pages. It begins badly, with the LaRouche magazine Executive Intelligence Review (EIR) quoted at length on pages 6 and 7. EIR claims that SAIMR was a front for MI6 but offers no evidence for that; nor […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] far as Meadows was concerned, the US military leadership was ‘clearly swinging toward the radical left’ and were clearly ‘woke’ in their sympathies. (p. 61) And the intelligence agencies were not much better. There are a number of things to be said about this. First of all, how astonishing it is to have a […]

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