The View from the Bridge

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[…] . . 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

[…] 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

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: […]

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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 […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[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 […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] rejected Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to a Turkish prison, some of his supporters uploaded to their website, jancom.org, a document, described as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of […]

Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: Jimmy Carter’s Roswell investigation Garrick Alder This is a sequel to ‘Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell’ in Lobster 77.1 As a US presidential candidate in 1976, James Earl (Jimmy) Carter Jr. attended a meeting at the Pentagon in Washington D.C., the aim of which was to seek official disclosure of the truth […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Nationalists in Scotland and Wales and the less significant Campaign for the North,38 the Yorkshire Party39 and Mebyon Kernow, the party of Cornwall.40 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. […]

Between The Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] . . . his ‘independence’ is finally revealed as simply a cover story on p. 92 when he writes of contacting his main ‘case officer’ in the CIA. Independents or genuine free-lance journalists don’t have case officers.3 For example, he discusses the formation of the pro-EEC/EU Social Democratic Party in the early 1980s without […]

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