The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] Woodward and Bernstein were still sharpening their pencils, The Realist published Brussell’s ‘Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?’. It was a huge collection of biographical data about the Watergate personnel. But she also wrote this in it: The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential for a political coup d’etat in the […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] Woodward and Bernstein were still sharpening their pencils, The Realist published Brussell’s ‘Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?’. It was a huge collection of biographical data about the Watergate personnel. But she also wrote this in it: The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential for a political coup d’etat in the […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] Woodward and Bernstein were still sharpening their pencils, The Realist published Brussel’s ‘Why Was Martha Mitchell Kidnapped?’. It was a huge collection of biographical data about the Watergate personnel. But she also wrote this in it: The significance of the Watergate Affair is that every element essential for a political coup d’etat in the […]

View from

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[…] 1967 CIA 4 memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I am grateful to Professor Richard Keeble11 for the following. an intriguing revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, […]

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[…] notorious 1967 CIA memo to its agents and influencers round the world telling them to denigrate Warren Commission sceptics as ‘conspiracy theorists’.10 Boy, did they ever! *new* Watergate I am grateful to Professor Richard Keeble11 for the following. an intriguing revelation buried in yesterday’s Times obit for Fred Emery, their former Washington correspondent. Emery, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Hougan Did a pre-presidential meeting in the jungle between Nixon and a militaristic priest escalate ‘Nam? ‘A Call from Hunt: Inside the First Hours and Days of Watergate’ by Douglas Caddy ‘A Strange New Watergate Book: Lamar Waldron & Watergate’ by James DiEugenio So: this is some of the A-team as far as parapolitics […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] who was recruited while still a student at Brigham Young.47 There is even a Mormon connection to the seven people indicted by the Grand Jury for the Watergate burglary (five of whom had been involved in some way with the CIA). This was the public relations firm (and CIA front) Robert R. Mullen and […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] the story and the tracking down of the birth certificates to a former campaign manager for Wilson, William Gaunt. (94). Pincher adds that at the time of Watergate (1973? 1974?) “Tory MPs were promoting the idea that Wilson faced a ‘babygate’”, noting that “the Tory leadership had been given full information about the problems […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A  review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] sort of terrain does the armourplated crustacean cover? Recent issues have examined the impact of naval sonar devices on whales (it kills them), an alternative take on Watergate (it all started with hookers), electionrigging in the UK (remarkably easy to do), an analysis of al-Qaeda’s PR campaign (amazingly effective), and possible CIA involvement in […]

Crazytown

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Mike Pence Michael D’Antonio and Peter Eisner New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2018 Bob Woodward’s Fear was an instant international bestseller, with sales promoted by both his Watergate reputation and by the fascination that the deranged President Trump excites. Could the man who helped bring down the last crook to occupy the White House, […]

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