View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] SIS Chief Maurice Oldfield, told me that when they heard of the assassination, his circle assumed it had been done by the CIA. In other words, the KGB didn’t manufacture this thread and Garrison’s investigation was merely the beginning of it. There is a vast amount of research on the CIA-dunnit thesis of which […]

Appendices

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Bush and Ray Cline. Another UK participant was Crozier. 1980 co-wrote international best-seller The Spike putting in factoid form some of the new right fantasies about the KGB. NEAVE Airey: 1942 joined P15 section of MI9, the escape organisation controlled by MI6. 1944 part of IS(9), Intelligence School No 9 (West European area) MI9 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] and is supported by the world’s off-shore banking system. Toby Sculthorp, who referred me to the book review, commented: ‘the thesis that a very small group of KGB officers have been able to rebuild the modern Russian state. So we have a political scientific model that posits that a powerful intelligence cabal – in […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, 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 […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] his identity and I found it unlistenable. 1 ‘Don’t forget that this prime minister went straight from a NATO summit to an orgy hosted by a former KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] He continues: ‘…….Over the years, pretty much everyone Jack Kennedy offended, and everyone Lee Harvey Oswald met, has been accused of involvement: the FBI; CIA; ONI; the KGB; Cuban intelligence; anti-Castro Cubans; the mafia; White Russians; the KKK and NSRP.’ Who is missing from the list? Kennedy’s vice president, Lyndon Johnson, one of the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] contained a faction which believed that Harold Wilson was, or might be, a Soviet agent, 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 […]

Beaumont novel copy

Lobster Issue

[…] his identity and I found it unlistenable. 1 ‘Don’t forget that this prime minister went straight from a NATO summit to an orgy hosted by a former KGB officer.’ p. 170 For reporting of the real world incident – minus the orgy claim – when Johnson was Foreign Secretary, see or . 2 1 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] population: create confusion and cynicism about the political system. Here’s Anne Applebaum on the Russia of today: ‘It is incredible, but a group of cynical, corrupt ex- KGB officers with access to vast quantities of illegal money—operating in a country with religious discrimination, extremely low church attendance, and a large Muslim minority—have somehow made […]

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

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] Perspectives on the Fall of Polly Peck’. He was the subject of ‘Revealed: How Sir Thomas Legg the exes axeman lost his wife to a guitar-playing ‘ KGB suspect’ . See also ‘Expenses axeman Sir Thomas Legg “inspired TV’s Judge John Deed love feud plot”’ at asked Sir John Scarlett, retiring chief of MI6 […]

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