View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] seems to have been part of his hunt for KGB penetration agents in the CIA. John Newman has argued recently that Oswald These paras are from declassified FBI documents reproduced at . 16 ‘Crusader 80’ was the exercise in which Smith and his Territorial Army colleagues played a part. On ‘Crusader 80’ see or […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Azov Battalion has cultivated a relationship with members of the Atomwaffen Division150 as well as with U.S.–based militants from the Rise Above Movement, or RAM, which the FBI has labelled a ‘white supremacy extremist group’ based in Southern California. A week later, a Homeland Security subcommittee was told:. Azov reportedly has connections to the […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people.” Leary continued: “I like the CIA! The game they’re playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco’s police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] Act, eight years after the 1959 report by Sir John Wolfenden, father of the blackmailed journalist, the threat of prison loomed. I can imagine that the occasional FBI reports on both Silberman Silberman’s academic ability appears under-estimated by Gillman and Midolo, judging by a posthumous article in Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] when the Republicans got wind of this, JFK’s brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] percent of the decisions I made were suggested to me by CIA people.” Leary continued: “I like the CIA! The game they’re playing is better than the FBI. Better than the Saigon police. Better than Franco’s police. Better than the Israeli police. They’re a thousand times better than the KGB. So it comes down […]

In Spies We Trust: the story of western intelligence by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] secret service to prevent America from ‘falling into the hands of capitalist robber barons.’ Clearly that did not altogether succeed; and it is doubtful whether either the FBI or MI5 could be tasked with a similar duty today. (The last I heard on this from a senior intelligence officer – ‘Chatham House rules’ prevent […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] him I got a call from an American writer I know called Jim Hougan. Hougan had been chatting to a friend, who had a contact in the FBI, and somehow this little magazine produced in Hull, England, came up. Don’t worry about Lobster, was the message, Lobster has been penetrated. That seemed absolutely hilarious […]

The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ by Roger Stone with Mike Colapietro

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] making these statements. 1 Answer: Goldwater was very confident.’ It is this Stone quotes, but without attributing it. The KGB story is true and well known.2 An FBI source within the KGB reported that said agency believed Johnson was behind it. ‘Stone ties LBJ to at least seven politically motivated murders prior to the […]

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