The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state * Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5’s biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must, Garrick Alder and Sally Walker for editorial assistance with this edition of Lobster. *new* Just another Texas murder? CovertAction Magazine has an essay by its editor, Jeremy Kuzamarov, on the murders which accompanied LBJ’s rise to power.1 The essay is very good, throughly documented. […]

007’s real mission continues

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[PDF file]: […] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 text

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cover-up of the Contras/cocaine connection is, like Webb’s 1996 exposé itself, not conclusive – but it’s there. Blunt in Hesse O ne of the puzzles Peter ‘Spycatcher’ Wright said he never solved in the hundreds of hours during which he interrogated unmasked Soviet double-agent Sir Anthony Blunt was the precise nature of Blunt’s mission […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] the real Bond including The Private Life of James Bond by Chestnut Hill College history professor David Contosta, and more recently The Real James Bond by James Wright, a New Jersey birder. Shakespeare even contacted Wright to ask him about Bond, but still doesn’t produce an accurate portrait of the man. Like Fleming, James […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Details of the tax agency’s remarkable leniency emerged in 1964 hearings held by a subcommittee of the House Select Committee on Small Business, chaired by Texas Democrat Wright Patman, to study the impact on the U.S. economy of tax-exempt foundations and charitable trusts. The subcommittee’s study director, H. A. Olsher, struggled to deal with […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] on the prospect that the British (secret) state might not take too kindly to a Corbyn-led Labour government. Invoking Chris Mullins’ A Very British Coup and Peter Wright in a jumbled account of anti-Wilson coup talk and planning, which conflated events in the 1960s and 70s, Jones prefaced it all with the obligatory ‘What, […]

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