The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[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 […]

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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 […]

View from Lob 73

Lobster Issue

[…] 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: […]

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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

[…] . . I would like to see ‘Anglo Zionist Empire’ stood up. *new* See for yourself An American called Robert Aldridge sent me an essay, ‘Did the CIA Subvert the 1968 U.S. Presidential Election?’. Aldridge argues that the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy in 1968 – and a number of other […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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: […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 62 (Winter 2011)

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[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 […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] – claimed the group had the direct backing of the US State Department and the approval of her close friend Walter Bedell Smith, the director of the CIA. (p. 157)3 Declassified CIA documents show CIA Director Bedell Smith meeting Paine in 19514 and she wrote to the CIA’s H. W. Jackson that year: ‘I […]

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