The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] operation involving planted information; deception of the British and authorised personnel; attacks on individuals which do nothing to advance the fight against terrorism.’ 7 * new * Mind control Muckrock is a website devoted to FOIA requests in the USA. It recently had a story headed: ‘Washington State Fusion Centre accidentally releases records on […]

The British state’s failed attempt to kill off the Freedom of Information Act

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to an ad hoc panel to examine the question of how some material still held by the National Archives should be declassified with the FOI Act in mind. Mr Brown had put his finger deftly on the point that had alarmed Mr Blair in 2005, and to which Mr Blair only confessed in his […]

Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] peace with the world.10 Read Carroll’s book in tandem with this. Where Grieving Begins: Building Bridges after the Brighton Bomb – a Memoir (London: Pluto Press, 2021). 10 5 Simon Matthews’ latest book is Free Your Mind!: Giovanni ‘Tinto’ Brass, ‘Swinging London’ and the 60s Pop Culture Scene (Harpenden : Oldcastle Books, 2023, £15.99) 6

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] of the metaphor ‘turn the key’ evokes the literary roman à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] not believe him. ‘He argued that what young Klitschko had seen in America were fake cities set up to deceive people’. (emphasis added) He only changed his mind when Klitschko Jnr took him to the USA to see for himself. Stephen Dorril had a similar experience circa 1990 (as I recall it). He told […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] of the metaphor ‘turn the key’ evokes the literary roman à clef . Perhaps that genre’s long association with true crime was an unconscious factor in Zelensy’s mind, given that he was inadvertently confessing to campaign finance fraud. One TV viewer later told researchers: Somewhere in subconscious you made some, well, not analogies, but […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] of Britain – ‘few’ against the Nazi ‘hordes’ – and the much bruited morale and good humour of the little English people in their slums – ‘never mind, dear, put on the kettle and we’ll have a nice cup of tea’1 – under the impact of Blitzkrieg. That’s the popular British version. The saturation […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] for LSD research. This, of course, sets off – admittedly faint – alarm bells that the HAFMC research had something to do with the CIA’s MK-Ultra ( mind control) project. MK-Ultra These alarm bells go off big time however, when O’Neill brings in Dr Jolyon West – the man who conducted the notorious experiment […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] incidents. These came as one-offs or in waves. They stopped as quickly as they started, only to kick off again just as a semblance of peace of mind was being restored. Although largely invisible to mainstream Britain, the fear and hysteria this engendered within the Iraqi community and those associated with it was beyond […]

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