The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] accused the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.14 Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] into detail about Angleton’s relationship with the FBI and his domestic surveillance operations in the US leading up the assassination of Kennedy. Klarenberg reminds us that: Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s removal from federal watchlists six weeks before Kennedy’s assassination. There are a number of possible interpretations here. The first is […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the US of having ‘labs across Ukraine . . . secretly developing biological weapons’.2 *new* Encounter Lobster readers are probably familiar with the story of how the CIA secretly funded Encounter magazine, a publication that promoted the Gaitskelite wing of the Labour Party. Less well known is the fact that there was other, also […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Misc reviews

Lobster Issue

[…] from the scene hours before the plane was officially ‘found’.) Culprits? Many interests had reason to want Hammarskjold dead: the French, dickering in Central Africa; the Americans (CIA), obsessed with the red menace, who thought this meddling Swede was a bit pink; South Africa, afraid that the UN would encourage African nationalism in the […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] But it’s difficult to see how MOSSAD agents could remain undetected in a closed society like Iran. Later, sections of an increasingly divided Iranian media suggested the CIA were to blame. But as New York Times journalist James Risen has revealed, the CIA has been a busted flush in Iran for over a decade. […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

Lobster Issue

[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] details, blurring the line between fiction, non-fiction and reality. I first came across a 1948 newspaper article about the real James Bond while researching the background of CIA bursar Cummins Catherwood, a multimillionaire whose Catherwood Foundation was used to finance CIA covert 4 operations. Catherwood’s Fund also paid for the construction of a sailing […]

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