The View from the Bridge

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[…] the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz to review it and he devoted almost all of his three page review to the Stone-Kuznik account of why vice president Henry Wallace was dumped by Roosevelt during WW2 – obviously the most important part of the series, right? For what it’s worth, I think Wilentz makes a pretty […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] the Princeton historian Sean Wilentz to review it and he devoted almost all of his three page review to the Stone-Kuznik account of why vice president Henry Wallace was dumped by Roosevelt during WW2 – obviously the most important part of the series, right? For what it’s worth, I think Wilentz makes a pretty […]

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[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.37 Some of the content […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] rice and wheat crops. The Iraqis looked at this in the 1980s for possible use against 14 The Net attributes this to the American novelist David Foster Wallace but it’s much older than that. I just can’t remember who said it first. 15 16 See below under subhead Ah yes: the USA as moral […]

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[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.37 Some of the content […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay As always, thanks to Nick Must and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. *new* Spook-wise Christopher Moran’s ‘Company Confessions: The CIA, Whistleblowers, and the Cold War’1 takes us back to the 1970s and the appearance of CIA ‘defectors’, Philip Agee, Frank Snepp and Victor Marchetti, and the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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[…] that children were physically and sexually abused. And that list does include Clockwork Orange – the MI5 operation to smear British politicians, which was exposed by Colin Wallace. But there is a downside: for such an extraordinary story, the author – Irish barrister, David Burke – has provided zero documentation.22 Some of the content […]

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[PDF file]: […] Challenger 3. Each of the Challenger 3s will cost nearly £5.5 million; total order £800 million. As part of the launch of this story, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace was reported as saying this tank is better than anything the Russians have.7 This really is bizarre. Mr Wallace is apparently envisaging a tank battle somewhere […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] being reviewed by someone else. But I can’t resist commenting on a couple of pages on Northern Ireland about which I have some knowledge. First there’s Colin Wallace, ‘an information officer based at the British army headquarters in Lisburn, Northern Ireland He had apparently adopted a rather too cavalier approach to his job’. (pp. […]

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