The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] informed me that this is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of […]

lob84-view from the bridge (sept 84)

Lobster Issue

[…] informed me that this is what the site’s managers wanted. It is thus a long series of striking claims – for example: ‘Giles Raddice was a CIA agent inside the British Labour Movement’ – with no sources. The site managers have also put copy block on the content; so copying it, or part of […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] brother (and Attorney General) expelled her (illegally) from the US. Because Rometsch had originally come from East Germany, the FBI suspected she might be a Soviet bloc agent. No evidence of this has every appeared. Rometsch has not been seen or heard of since. My guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] all about the US’s supposedly secret negotiations with Iraq, and even the details of Operation Desert Eagle itself. Behind the scenes Casey approached Mohammed Hashemi, a CIA agent in Iran, and negotiated his own secret deal on behalf of Reagan, whereby the US promised to sell large quantities of high tech weapons secretly to […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] is it credible that Ian Cameron, a senior MI5 officer, did not tell his superiors in London about Brian Gemmell’s report and that he was running an agent inside ‘Tara’? The transcript of a call made to the RUC’s Confidential Telephone on 23 May 1973 shows that senior police officers, including the Head of […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Jona retained that spelling. Peter changed it to Ustinov. For simplicity I have used Ustinov here for both. 16 Peter Day, Klop – Britain’s most ingenious secret agent (Biteback, 2014) and Hugh Purcell, A very private celebrity – The nine lives of John Freeman (Robson Press, 2015) questionnaire enquiring about his racial background and […]

MANUFACTURING TERRORISM: When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society by T. J. Coles

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: Into the quagmire MANUFACTURING TERRORISM When Governments Use Fear to Justify Foreign Wars and Control Society T. J. Coles Sussex (UK): Clairview Books, 2018, p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] time went by. RFK on the other hand had power, and Hoover viewed him as a ‘sneaky little son of a bitch’. Hoover even assigned a Special Agent to watch the Attorney-General’s television appearances.9 The anti-MLK ‘cabal’ The Autumn 1963 dossier episode had allowed the dossier’s author (key FBI man William Sullivan) to create […]

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