The View from the Bridge

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[…] the files proved government mind control activities or some such. 10 or 11 or 12 Roderick Russell introduced us to this. See his and his essay ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . 13 in an interview. ‘. . .if you look at the United States and the […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Kurt Karl Gottfried Peter zur Lippe-Biesterfeld at Jena in Information on Commander Cohen is available at . 3 See the AP news feed story ‘Lid blows off spy ring in Swiss capital’, The Straits Times (English-language newspaper in Singapore) 16 June 1957 at or 4 See Thomas Riegler, ‘The State as a Terrorist: France […]

The Oyston Files by Andrew Rosthorn

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the book, Andrew Rosthorn becomes a part of, rather than a teller of, the story. Like the plot from a Len Deighton or John le Carré spy novel, phone calls between the people planning to bring down Oyston were being recorded by the participants themselves – or bugged by third parties – left, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a new book about the death of the Labour MP Bob Cryer: Killing Cryer: The Life and Mysterious Death of a British MP Who Exposed America’s Secret Spy Base.8 Dr. Roger Cottrell is a kind of Lobster fellow-traveller, as a search for his name on this site will show. He now has a ‘substack’ […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] the JFK researchers are coming – and Hunt was a right-wing cold warrior. Hunt’s naming of LBJ to his son was prefigured in his 2007 memoir, American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond, written before his ‘confession’, which contained this paragraph: ‘Having Kennedy liquidated, thus elevating himself to the presidency […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of Commons on 8 December, Channon writes ‘Russia saved the government in July; now Japan will do likewise’. He had enough political sense to know 25 Hitler’s Spy Chief (London: Pegasus, 2013) pp. 213-216 Replacing him with Richard Law, Conservative MP for Kingston upon Hull SW and son of Andrew Bonar Law. A right-wing […]

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