The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] more serious – charges were made against Bill Clinton. That Clinton was a communist. In fact there are reasonably good reports that he was recruited by the CIA, while a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford, to report on American students in the UK who opposed the Vietnam War.2 That Clinton was corrupt. The Whitewater scandal: […]

Oh, conspiracy!

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] what is dismissed as conspiracy theories – parapolitics or deep politics – does not. The work of William Blum, for example,3 in detailing the role of the CIA in the USA’s post-WW2 empire, complicates the study of American foreign policy (or would if academics and journalists could bring themselves to read it); and the […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] of the Guardian’s long-standing pro-American stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non-communist left) supported/penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted […]

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

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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

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Guardian’s long-standing proAmerican stance made me wonder, for the umpteenth time, if the Guardian had been part of the NCL (non-communist left) supported/ penetrated/run by the CIA during the Cold War. In its attempt to regulate the entire Western media in those years, the CIA could take the conservative UK press for granted […]

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[…] a hand in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] based on a fragment of the Barry Seal story. Seal was a big-time cocaine smuggler who got busted and becoming 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 […]

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[…] a hand in it.3 There are indeed loose Israeli connections to JFK’s demise. Among the big items on that list would be: * James Angleton, head of CIA counter-intelligence, had his people monitoring Oswald’s activities in the US upon his return from the USSR. Why, we don’t know; and whether or not this amounted […]

Operation Just Causes’s Unjust Aftermath

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to butter Noriega up. But DEA officials praised Noriega in private as well as in public. Recalled Duane Clarridge, former head of Latin America operations for the CIA, 5 Vivienne Walt, ‘Despite French Sentence, Noriega Could Go Home’, Time, July 7, 2010. Leon Kellner, quoted in Frederick Kempe, Divorcing the Dictator: America’s Bungled Affair […]

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