View ffrom Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

View from Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

Is this what failure looks like? Brian Sedgemore 1937–2015

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Labour won Wandsworth – at that point a pre-Thatcher, pregentrified area of London à la Up the Junction – in 1971 and held it until 1978. by Wilson, Jenkins, Healey and Callaghan), its central thrust was virulently anti-Heath. Thus the AES recommended that the UK should leave the EEC and also (mistakenly) accused the […]

View from the Bridge 89

Lobster Issue

[…] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

Thatcher’s Secret War Subversion, Coercion, Secrecy and Government, 1974-90

Lobster Issue

[…] no-one has even re-examined Thatcher’s rise to power, the 1974-79 period, since Stephen Dorril and I wrote Lobster 11 and the expansion of that material in Smear! Wilson and the Secret State; and they were published in 1986 and 1991, before the Internet. What could be done these days with Google and Nexis-Lexis? A […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] there. Related to which is Morrow’s reproduction of the text of a 1984 report in the Dallas Morning News which includes this: Former Texas Atty. Gen. Will Wilson said Tuesday that federal authorities refused to cooperate with the state in a 1962 investigation of the death of an Agricultural Department official who was looking […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: South of the border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must *new* From the dim and distant past Reading British spy Greville Wynne’s The Man From Moscow,1 I noticed that MI6 had set him up as a potential traitor. This was presumably done to ensure there was a fall-back position if it were deemed necessary that he […]

A Hack’s Progress by Phillip Knightley

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] counterparts, the Soviet Union, not the West, collapsed. The conclusion is obvious: intelligence can have played little or no role The episode also involved Prime Minister Harold Wilson acting as go-between – another example of Wilson trying to be a ‘good boy’ where the spooks were concerned. 2 MI5 had it in for Mountbatten […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] counterparts, the Soviet Union, not the West, collapsed. The conclusion is obvious: intelligence can have played little or no role The episode also involved Prime Minister Harold Wilson acting as go-between – another example of Wilson trying to be a ‘good boy’ where the spooks were concerned. 2 MI5 had it in for Mountbatten […]

General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)

[PDF file]: […] had ‘preferred to deal with Sikorski’s infinitely more intransigent successors’ over the location of the post-war Polish border. 19 A year later, the British prime minister Harold Wilson asked Sir Robin Cooper, a former pilot working in the cabinet office, to review Air Marshal Sir John Slessor’s 1943 inquiry. David Irving had noted the […]

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