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 […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] government sat on the bank’s board of directors. One of the high points of Noriega’s cooperation was Operation Pisces, a Duane R. Clarridge and Digby Diehl, A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA (New York: Simon and Schuster) 2002, pp. 237, 342. 10 11 Newsday, January 31, 1992. Steve Albert, The […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 2 – This is the modern world

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] Major Alastair 11 See Stanley Pignal, ‘G4S beefs up security side with ArmorGroup purchase’, Financial Times, 22 March 2008, at . 12 See Saeed Shah, ‘Former MI6 spy joins Armor Group to hunt down new business’, The Independent, 20 August 2006 at . 13 14 15 See ‘Memorandum from ArmorGroup Services Limited’, presented to […]

Holding Pattern

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 49 If MI6 were never interested in Johnson for his own sake, they would certainly have been interested in his rather pally relationship with a known Russian spy. See either man. Chilcot There is so much to be said about Sir John Chilcot’s Inquiry into the Iraq War. It ironically delivered a political Weapon […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] of James Angleton’s CI/SIG Division where the mole was thought to have burrowed into. The hunt involved sending Oswald to Russia as a marked card dangling U2 spy plane secrets. The kicker is that the CIA molehunter, Bruce Solie, was in fact the mole who was in the perfect position to thwart the hunt […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of 2017: ‘Britain’s energy companies were hacked on the day of the General Election by computer criminals believed to have been backed by Russia. The Government’s electronic spy agency GCHQ said in an official report sent to the energy sector that companies “are likely to have been compromised” in the wake of the attack […]

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 […]

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