The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the Bridge * 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’. […]

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’. […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] which will not be disclosed concerning for example military operations or cyphers. Government agencies whose information is largely of a necessarily secret kind such as security and intelligence services, are in some countries excluded from the access requirements altogether or in others included but subject to exemptions which in practice need to cover a […]

View from the bridge

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[…] . .’ . . . was Jefferson Morley’s initial reaction to the JFK documents recently declassified.1 Morley was referring to the revelation that head of CIA counter intelligence (CI), James Angleton, began collecting reports on Oswald in 1959. A week or so later Morley wrote: ‘The new JFK files yield clear and convincing evidence […]

View from the bridge

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[…] he had anything further to say on the British Gladio. There is this on the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever […]

View from the bridge

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[…] he had anything further to say on the British Gladio. There is this on the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever […]

View from the bridge

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[…] he had anything further to say on the British Gladio. There is this on the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever […]

View from the bridge

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[…] he had anything further to say on the British Gladio. There is this on the same page (p. 239): The UK network was thus operated by Britain’s intelligence services and selected members of the armed forces. In a very real sense MI5 operated a civil army with trained operatives, and infiltrated them into whichever […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] as its manifesto. * Storming teacups At Robert Eringer tells us that he is being sued by Prince Albert of Monaco. Eringer claims to have created an intelligence agency for Prince Albert and is the author of Ruse, which recounts his years working undercover missions for the FBI. Those with longer memories will recall […]

The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain by Richard Norton-Taylor

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] h/b Scott Anthony Logic would tell you that the relationship between journalists and secret agents should be antagonistic. Journalists are after all charged with exposing power, while intelligence work is supposedly done in the shadows. But in Norton-Taylor’s highly believable account, the British media is nearly always accommodating if not weak before the influence […]

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