View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; terrorism, genocide, espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] so disappointed with the eventual publication. He had wanted his life’s work to be an unchallengeable history of Soviet misdeeds, not a compendium of inaccurate tales of espionage.’ (p. 314) Symonds’ account ends with this devastating final paragraph. ‘In retrospect, nobody emerges from the Mitrokhin affair with much credit. The BBC and The Times […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] investigates their leaderships, enabling structures, and activities for meaningful links to or behaviours consistent with: malign influence and finance; financial and organised crime; narrative or reputation laundering; espionage; or other indicators flagged in our methodology. And it seeks to empower the third sector through our flagship NGO Watchlist, special investigations, and informative opinion pieces. […]

View from 92

Lobster Issue

[…] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

Rupert Murdoch: An Investigation of Political Power by David McKnight

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] attachment to print journalism, as is sometimes suggested, but have one purpose and one purpose only: ‘to 1 Lobster regulars might be familiar with McKnight’s earlier book, Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War. give Murdoch a seat at the table of national politics in three English-speaking nations’. In Britain, the focus has […]

The USA, China and a new Cold War?

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] of free trade. There have also been anxieties expressed in Washington that China is using both foreign investment and its increasingly sophisticated IT and AI sectors for espionage against the West. These have recently centred on Huawei along with Chinese social media corporations such as TikTok and WeChat. The upshot has been a series […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] defence establishments throughout the country – Latimer House at Amersham, for example. The lectures were on a variety of subjects, including European history, ‘post-war’ economics, subversion, policing, espionage and counterespionage. These are the names of the lecturers Sanderson recalled when writing the first version of this in prison. (The italicised comments in brackets are […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] again with the death of CIA officer Aldrich Ames in prison in early January. His obituary in The Times carried his comment, made during his sentencing for espionage in 1994, that spying was ‘a self-serving sham carried out by careerist bureaucrats who managed to deceive policy-makers and the public about the necessity and value […]

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