Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] could have been compromised. “We all know what 9/11 meant to the country, and his treating those records in such a manner will always leave, in my mind, a cloud over whether or not the 9/11 Commission got full production of the records that they requested, and that to me is extremely serious and […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* The times they might be a-changin’ One day in July I was reading ‘CIA has a long history of empowering monsters’ by the editor of Covert Action Magazine, Jeremy Kuzmarov. True, of course, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] provide us with a clear sense of the marginal concerns that preoccupied conspiracy theorists . . . .’ 19 A conspiracy theorist, moi? It’s all in the mind There’s a new book about Sweden by a Swede living in the US, Kajsa Norman: 16 or <http://uk.businessinsider.com/swedish-people-embedmicrochips-under-skin-to-replace-id-cards-2018-5?r=US&IR=T 17 See, for example, from 2007 Todd Lewan’s […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence officer Penkofsky about the actual accuracy of Soviet missiles did appear to play a […]

The economic crisis

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] (or Hull, where I live); then ask yourself if those changes are compatible with membership of (a) the World Trade Organisation and (b) the European Union. (Never mind whether or not they would be compatible with lower carbone missions etc.) Page 57 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 So financial services are only 7.1% of GDP. […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] matters arising will have been of interest to those recently recruited or considering working with SIS, whether as staff or agent: criminal collusion tends to concentrate the mind. Particularly traumatised will be some individuals of other authoritarian nations, seeking the overthrow of their leaders and sharing information with SIS in the belief they have […]

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