On getting it wrong and getting it right: Ronald Stark, LSD and the CIA

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] by other historians, he eventually conceded, ‘I made some claims about facts which have turned out to be unwarranted’. Of his claim that Bruno was the embassy spy, code-named ‘Henry Fagot’, Bossy wrote, ‘I thought so at the time, but have turned out to be mistaken’. Bossy, however, had dragged a lot of fascinating […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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.21 Who’s zooming who? It sure is getting complex out there where the interests of global corporations and states meet the internet. Trying to protect their […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Wikipedia . . . In August much of the major media, including the BBC, ran a story about the late Cedric Belfrage, claiming he was a Soviet spy, ‘the sixth man’. Christopher Andrew was among those prominently quoted supporting this thesis. The estimable John Simkins published a devastating rebuttal of this, pointing out that […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] release them, with all their revelations about the Hess affair. Scott Newton is Emeritus Professor of Modern British and International History at Cardiff University. Joseph Fitsanakis, ‘Cambridge spy ring member gave USSR British royals’ pro-Nazi letters’, Intelnews.org, 6 April 2021, at . Blunt’s career, including his time in MI5 and his post-war mission to […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] (shades of the late Simon Dee) became a popular DJ on the BBC. 6 Stonehouse was the subject of allegations in 1969 that he was a Czech spy. Was the selection of the RNI broadcasting frequency a deliberate attempt to compromise or embarrass him? If so, by whom? voters to ditch Wilson and go […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Jackie doesn’t flinch (and other JFK bits and pieces) There are lots of bits of film on YouTube about the Kennedy assassination and I’ve looked at many. Recently I clicked on one made by one George Jettison, which opens with him – a large […]

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