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[…] engaged in biological weapons development was later admitted on March 8 by U.S. State Department official Victoria Nuland during hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. (Empha sis added.) Nuland said that in public? This didn’t seem likely; and no, in fact she didn’t. She said Ukraine has ‘biological research facilities’.2 Why spice it […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] chemist, to see a doctor as he had been ill for several months with ulcer problems, had become despondent, and was now suffering from a severe psycho sis. That’s the story as reported at the time. An open and shut case: Olson had a cocktail of medical problems, both physical and mental, so it […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] ‘decisive role’ played by intelligence Knightley is asking for too much. Even during the Cold War there have been occasions when the intelligence services, the CIA and SIS for example, actually did provide intelligence of substance. The first that springs to mind was the Cuban missile crisis, when the information from the Soviet intelligence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] college,190 and the The Economist, just in time for the fall of the Soviet bloc. Were she British I would wonder if that was her route into SIS. As an American, probably not. More likely it was just another stop on the way to her current prominent place among the apologists for liberal internationalism. […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] MI6 after these reports emerged, it was stated that this had been the MI6/LIFG plot in action. Shayler took MI6 at their word and had no ba sis for this belief (that the LIFG were responsible) other than the fact that it was MI6 officer ‘PT16B’ – now known to be David Watson – […]

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