The View from the Bridge

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[…] and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to Information Policy. There is no […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] based on a fragment of the Barry Seal story. Seal was a big-time cocaine smuggler who got busted and became an informant for the US authorities. The CIA, not the DEA, installed a camera on his plane which malfunctioned and all Seal got were some murky stills of men, one of whom Seal identified […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to Information Policy. There is no […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by a document which claims to be pages from a CIA analysis of the so-called Supergun affair – that bizarre project to build for Iraq a ‘gun’ with a 750 kilometre range, which ended with the murder […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] of the first issue,24 Garrison is very much closer to Parapolitics and Covert Action than it is to Paranoia, The Realist and Steamshovel. The Intelligence Party ‘The CIA is emerging as a domestic political party. I don’t mean this in a conspiratorial sense (though it has conspiratorial implications), and I don’t mean it literally. […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] one place in American society where Mormons have found an unusual degree of acceptance – in agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and the CIA, which see Mormons as particularly desirable recruits and have a reputation for hiring a disproportionate number of people who belong to the church. While this comes […]

JFK tramps Lob 71

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[…] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]

JFK, Chauncey Holt and the three ‘tramps’ redux

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[…] is one of the many puzzles in the case. Over the years people have put forward various candidates. For example, the ‘old tramp’ looks rather like the CIA officer Howard Hunt. But only one person ever claimed to have been one of ‘tramps’: the late Chauncey Holt. I got interested in this because it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] CE399. How did JFK get a back wound, about an inch deep, which contained no bullet? Holt told us that in the months before the assassination his CIA unit was modifying Mannlicher-Carcano rounds. ‘John Masen sent us several hundred bullets to be reloaded, according to very unusual specifications, which, at first glance, appeared to […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] EEC The U.S. took the 1975 referendum on British membership of the EEC seriously enough to send Cord Meyer over to London, for the period, as temporary CIA Station Chief. Meyer was one of the CIA’s most important clandestine operators who had been involved in the manipulation of the youth, student and labour fields […]

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