South of the border

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must Soldier F, 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment There was quite a furore when leader of the SDLP in the House of Commons, Colum Eastwood MP, used Parliamentary Privilege to name the member of 1st Battalion the Parachute Regiment who was involved in the shootings of Bloody Sunday […]

Permanent Record by Edward Snowden

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] citizens and legislators were appalled to learn that the NSA was surveilling German communications and had even targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s smartphone. At the same time, the BND, Germany’s premier intelligence agency, had collaborated with the NSA in numerous operations . . . .’ (p. 330) Earlier, in his discussion of Section 702 of […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] enemy is my friend’. It was relatively unshocking, then, to learn that SS-chief Heinrich Himmler’s daughter, Gudrun Burwitz (an unrepentant Nazi), had worked for the West German BND (in a relatively minor administrative role) for two years between 1961 and 1963.45 41 or 42 See or 43 See the section ‘All is forgiven (pp. […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and its complex of groups. Amongst Cercle intelligence contacts are former operatives from the American CIA, DIA and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, Germany’s BND, BfV and MAD, Holland’s BVD, Belgium’s Sûreté de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss and Saudi intelligence services. Politically, the Cercle […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] and English speaking countries. They were mixed in with twelve current or past directors or senior staff of Five Eyes intelligence and security agencies, including the German BND, France’s DGSE, Sweden’s sigint agency FRA, Australia’s ASIO and ASIS, Canada’s CSIS and a former Director and a former Director of Intelligence of the CIA, as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. NB Lobster is free All issues of Lobster are now available without charge on this site. *new* SIS obit On 24 November The Times published an obituary of the MI6 officer Paul Ritchie.1 […]

View from

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* Lobster is free All issues of Lobster are now available without charge on this site. *new* Wuhan I always skim through the Daily Mail website. As well as the usual drooling Royals […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] and English speaking countries. They were mixed in with twelve current or past directors or senior staff of Five Eyes intelligence and security agencies, including the German BND, France’s DGSE, Sweden’s sigint agency FRA, Australia’s ASIO and ASIS, Canada’s CSIS and a former Director and a former Director of Intelligence of the CIA, as […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] and its complex of groups. Amongst Cercle intelligence contacts are former operatives from the American CIA, DIA and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, Germany’s BND, BfV and MAD, Holland’s BVD, Belgium’s Sûreté de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss and Saudi intelligence services. Politically, the Cercle […]

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