The view from the bridge

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[…] probably some truth to the Chinese/North Korean claims. Russian money talking? In 2012 a proposal was launched to connect the British and French electricity grids via a cable through the Channel Tunnel. The company at the centre of this, ElectLink, describes the process thus: ‘Labelled as “European Project of Common Interest” by the European […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] whomever else it finds to support it) will be joining a civil war on the side of (among others) various Jihadist groups. If you find this inexpli cable, Peter Dale Scott, in his usual minutely detailed fashion has assembled all the extant knowledge of previous examples of the US military and intelligence services working […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] probably some truth to the Chinese/North Korean claims. Russian money talking? In 2012 a proposal was launched to connect the British and French electricity grids via a cable through the Channel Tunnel. The company at the centre of this, ElectLink, describes the process thus: ‘Labelled as “European Project of Common Interest” by the European […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] level of disinformation produced against the Sandinistas by the US government, this is difficult to evaluate without reading the local media, which I can’t do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. ‘Interior Minister Tomas […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] odd. What does raise one’s eyebrows, however, is an entry for May 9 1941, the day before Hess departed, which states: ‘ . . . a cryptic cable came. “Mrs Woolly well now at Berchers” – I tried to understand. It can only mean that Toto Toerring is attached to Hitler and is staying […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

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[PDF file]: […] heaviest-ever German bombing raid on London, Hess and Sikorski were both making dangerous flights to Scotland. Victor Cazalet, working in the USA with Sikorski, warned Churchill by cable on 30 April: ‘Sikorski getting agitated about getting home. I can’t help him. The planes are not ready.’ Cazalet cabled again on 1 May: ‘The General […]

‘Nobody told us we could do this’

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[PDF file]: […] finally ascended to the position of prime minister. If he thought about it at all, given his personal dealings with senior Liberal Democrats Ashdown, Kennedy, Campbell and Cable, Brown would have assumed that the Liberal Democrats would never do a deal with the Conservatives. But in late 2007 things changed. Firstly, Brown did not […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

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[PDF file]: […] from school days with the publisher’s son and heir, Si. The political power Cohn enjoyed from his association with the Newhouse media empire, with its 22 newspapers, cable TV companies, and prestige magazines like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and GQ, was ‘of inestimable value to Roy’, according to his biographer. In return, Cohn […]

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