The View from the Bridge

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[…] IMG – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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 complex has interlocked with the whole panoply of international right-wing groups: the Paneuropean Union, the On […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Further, in the ‘temper tantrum method’, the deranged style of manager ‘appears insulted or outraged. All of this in intended to distract from the fact that the boss has no idea what to do.’ Finally, in the world of the spooks we come to Gina Haspel, who: ‘. . . personally supervised the torture […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] would call an extensive array of witnesses on his behalf. This list included Colonel Oliver North, President George Bush Snr., General von Tenda (the former head of BOSS the South African intelligence service), Gerrit Pretorious (formerly secretary to President Pik Botha of South Africa) and a range of other individuals including serving CIA officers. […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 complex has interlocked with the whole panoply of international right-wing groups: the Paneuropean Union, the European […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and INR, Britain’s MI5, MI6 and IRD, France’s SDECE, Germany’s BND, BfV and MAD, Holland’s BVD, Belgium’s S ret de l’Etat, SDRA and PIO, apartheid South Africa’s BOSS, and the Swiss and Saudi intelligence services. A little while ago I met a woman who told me her daughter was an investigative journalist for Buzzfeed. […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and steered 6 In most – e.g. John Rentoul, Tony Blair, (London: Little Brown, 1995), p. 390 – the money came from Barry Cox, Peter Mandelson’s erstwhile boss at London Weekend Television (LWT). On the LWT network see Andy Beckett, ‘A world apart’, in The Guardian (Weekend), 4 September 1999. 7 John Lloyd, New […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] IMG – organisations which attacked the CPGB. The only evidence – if you can call it that – on this we have is the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1000 admitted at the beginning of the inquiry – but impressive nonetheless. The list reminded me of a number of things. There was the comment by former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter that, ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man is […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] event in Dallas.30 The author notes that some of the Mob’s senior figures were Jewish. There were also deep connections between Israel and Meyer Lansky, a mob boss at the top of America’s national crime syndicate. Lansky, a Zionist, had run guns to Jewish terrorists in Palestine in 1945 and later in life tried […]

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