The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] a major Soviet agent in funding and encouraging world terrorism. The minor theme is, of course, that the Soviet Union was behind the attempted assassination of the Pope. But covertly the important theme – and presumably the point of the exercise for the Israeli state – is that the PLO is simply a terrorist […]

Mr Gibbs and Mr Goering

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] on the western front. This brought him a knighthood, the Legion of Honour, and an international reputation. In 1920 he conducted the first ever interview with a Pope (Benedict XV) and thereafter operated at the stratospheric level enjoyed by acclaimed commentators, meeting world leaders, covering conferences, and writing accounts of international events. Throughout this […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.61 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.44 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.31 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.21 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.21 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. 8. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.21 If items 3, 4, 5 and 6 are true, […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.13 6. 7. 8. If items 3, 4, 5 and […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the only hope of bringing down the US government. Agitators would have been instrumental in trying to achieve this. There had been a KGB plan to kill Pope John Paul II. It was abandoned as the Soviet Leadership feared a PR disaster and worldwide reprisals.2 6. 7. 8. If true, items 3, 4, 5 […]

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