The View from the Bridge

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[…] Robin Ramsay Even 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 […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] true identity of the prisoner. Doubts had been voiced as early as 1945 by the US spymaster Allen Dulles, who suspected that one of the three British spy services had bamboozled the world at Nuremberg by handing over a doppelgänger for trial as a war criminal. A US Army doctor, Captain Ben Hurewitz, conducted […]

The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq by Emma Sky

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for pushing this policy, handing the country over to Nuri al-Maliki. Her hostility was reciprocated with one of Hill’s staff describing her as a ‘goddam fucking British spy’. For the US military, ‘the greatest threat to the mission had become the US embassy’. Her identification with the US military was complete. They had success […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] We have provided the Court with considerable sworn testimony by 1 2 See . 3 Russell wrote about his dealings with Canada’s CSIS in Lobster 65: ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . CSIS is Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service. 4 1 affidavit, including detailed testimony on the […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Europe was straightforward: the War on Terror you are just embarking on is one we have been fighting since our birth. Let our high-tech firms and privatized spy companies show you how it’s done.’ ‘It’s not an exaggeration to say that the War on Terror industry saved Israel’s faltering economy, much as the disaster […]

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