View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the CIA.5 File under ‘All our yesterdays’. There is a recent piece in the Irish News in which one Paul Cleeland claims to have been framed for murder after acting as an MI5 assassin in Ireland.6 Being framed by the British state rings a bell. Patrick Meehan claimed MI5 framed him for murder because […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] evidence in their archives of a conspiracy behind the Hess Flight lay like an unexploded bomb. It was as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] illegal detention. Niedermayer’s death created an appalling legacy. In June 1990 Niedermayer’s widow Ingeborg returned to Ireland and booked into a hotel at 1 The first was Murder Madness (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 1999). Greystones in Co Wicklow, in the Irish Republic. It would appear that she then walked into the sea fully clothed […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] scale dumb’. (p. 107) Leaving aside the ‘been a bit sexist’ and ‘perceived to be a bit racist’, this is a remarkable development. Then comes George Floyd’s murder on 25 May 2020. Coming after and overlapping with the disgust at Trump’s response to Covid, Sopel shows dismay turning to anger – not only at […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] ever existed. His reaction to this disagreement has been an intriguing mix of aggressive, passive aggressive and straight-up hippy – e.g. ‘People who try to cover up murder will be murdered under karma. Judgement Day is 22 August 2021. Love Dave.’10 As a kindly friend mentioned to me, ‘Obviously no-one could possibly have a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Binney. What had happened, Binney deduced, was that the files had been downloaded locally, probably to a thumb drive.’121 Meanwhile, back at the story of the unsolved murder of DNC employee Seth Rich, argued by some to have been the leaker in the DNC: ‘Mr. Butowsky stumbled into the RCH crosshairs after Ellen Ratner, […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.15 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the murder of its Athens station chief, Richard Welch, in 1975 to discredit not only defecting CIA officer Philip Agee but also, more importantly, Democratic Senator Frank Church, […]

View from Bridge copo

Lobster Issue

[…] father, RFK Sr.). What a pity then that RFK Jr. has chosen to lead the American opposition to vaccines. For this will dominate the conversation, not the murder of his uncle. Why he has gone down this road is unclear to me. I commented on his anti-vaxx writing in this column in Lobster 84 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] Thatcher believed that Arthur Scargill, though not a CPGB member, was part of ‘the enemy within’ – an agent of the Soviets. This idiocy climaxed with the murder of police sergeant John Speed in Leeds in a botched psy-op intended to blame striking miners for his shooting.31 As soon as Conservative MP Nicholas Ridley’s […]

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