The View from the Bridge

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[…] me with the personal information that they have on me.4 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 We have provided the Court with considerable […]

The View from the Bridge

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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 […]

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, […]

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

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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 […]

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’ […]

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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