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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Oh boy . . . There’s a man called John Robles, an American by birth, some time presenter at the Russian government’s Voice of Russia World Service in English.1 He has self-published […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] been an MI6 officer.’ Said claims were made by former British Ambassador Craig Murray (evidently unmentionable by the Telegraph), who wrote this: ‘One person I would not vote for is the crusading neoConservative Rory Stewart. It is particularly annoying that he is constantly referred to as a former diplomat. Stewart was an MI6 officer […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] of Edward Bennett Williams, and lawyer for the Democratic National Committee), President Johnson once ‘even had one Senator’s mistress contacted to have her persuade her lover to vote to break a filibuster’.5 6 Hoover also 54 Hersh, The Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 398-410; Summers, Official and Confidential, pp. 310-312; Flynt and Eisenbach, One […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] 98 The Pike Report, as a result of having been leaked prematurely by a friendly or hostile source to the Village Voice, was then suppressed by a vote of the House. 99 100 Servadio (see note 85) pp. 258-259, 261; Laurent (see note 98) pp. 244-257 30 anti-Allende operation, has blamed it on Richard […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] government of Panama at Fort Clayton.33 Its pro-U.S. leaders – President Guillermo Endara and Vice Presidents Ricardo Arias Calderón and Guillermo Ford34 – had won a popular vote the previous May as heads of the Democratic Opposition Civic Alliance, which enjoyed strong backing from Panama’s financial sector. However, Noriega’s electoral commission annulled their victory, […]

Secret History: Writing the Rise of Britain’s Intelligence Services by Simon Ball

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Revolution; and second, the series of internal inquiries into the place of intelligence in the British state.’ (p. 41) In 1919 . . . ‘The entire Secret Vote was worth less than one-tenth of the cost of a Royal Navy cruiser. Army Field Intelligence amounted to 0.1 per cent of the Army Estimates.’ (p. […]

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