Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he managed to penetrate the CIA-Air Force U2 program run out of a highly restricted area in the huge Atsugi base on behalf of the Soviet Union’s intelligence services; that as an air-traffic controller, Oswald tracked U-2 flights out of Atsugi and learned just how high the U-2 flew. With this information, the Soviets […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 There is nothing in it about such an operation involving Agee.5 What actually happened […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] FARI were both active in the UK in 1970s. 1 2 See, for example, . The Wiki entry on him at does its best to minimise his intelligence connections. A much more accurate account is at . 3 or 4 1 The View from the Bridge What actually happened is more prosaic. By the […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in public care in Kincora and other institutions, but none of them has satisfactorily addressed public concerns. What makes Kincora remarkable is the lingering suspicion that British Intelligence connived in the continued abuse of children, in order to secure intelligence on Loyalist paramilitaries. This paper shows that there is good reason for that suspicion. […]

Armed and Dangerous: the corporate origins of war with Iran

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] draw on historical and contemporary material to ask how this came about and, in particular, to look at the role of the energy security industry and private intelligence and military contractors in the preparation for war with Iran. Ridiculous as they were, the charges of an Iranian assassination plot on US soil were timely. […]

View from Bridge

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[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in which Nixon ordered his aides to get the CIA to help quash the Watergate investigation by telling the FBI that it was intruding on a sensitive intelligence operation. To enlist the CIA’s cooperation, Nixon proposed blackmailing the Agency by warning that the FBI probe could 3 For an early argument along these lines, […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] in it does not appear to be on-line. This is reminiscent of Kenneth de Courcy.8 Like du Berrier, de Courcy had some interesting early experiences in politics/ intelligence and parlayed this into a subscription-based newsletter which purported to show the world as it really How far we have come: Bilderberg was once secret and […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] the following people/groups Julius Draznin: Giancana and the Chicago Mob Walter Sheridan: Carlos Marcello and New Orleans Mob Pat Moynihan: Jimmy Hoffa and the Secret Service French Intelligence: HL Hunt and the rightwing’ Who’s not on that list? The most obvious candidate of all, the man who benefited most from the assassination, vice president […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] be copied. * In the opening paragraph the author – purportedly a CIA officer of some stripe, writing for other CIA officers – refers to the ‘Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)’. Would s/he need to put MI6 in brackets for a CIA audience? * Brian Crozier is described as a ‘UK Security Service (MI5) agent’. […]

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