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 […]

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 […]

Running Rings

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] likely to go rogue than state employees? And does GCHQ vet all recruits, including American employees of Amazon Web Services? Presumably they may liaise with the CIA/ FBI et al to check people out. That activity would be just the kind of thing already privatised on the other side of the pond. Some have […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] its empire in the same period.5 It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth countries the same thing happened. Little fragments keep cropping […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Scare. In Britain, he argues, ‘MI5’s activity was much more circumspect and rarely resulted in direct forms of censorship’, let alone any ‘explosive arrests’. MI5, unlike the FBI, did not have a Book Review Section, examining content. There were no British Dashiell Hammetts or Howard Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the […]

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