The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

The Killing of Thomas Niedermayer by David Blake Knox

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] His remains were secretly buried in an unofficial refuse tip at Colin Glen Road, not far from the family home, on the outskirts of Belfast. Following an intelligence lead, Alan Simpson and his RUC team discovered Niedermayer’s body in 1980. One man was convicted of manslaughter in 1981. One other was convicted of responsibility […]

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

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[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 […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] (p. 110) Which is what Peter Sanderson was describing in the piece I wrote in Lobster 81, ‘The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed’.11 ‘ Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a member of Central Planning […]

View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay My thanks to Garrick Alder and Nick Must for help with the production of Lobster. *new* ‘ Intelligence’ you call it? On Quora there are interesting posts by one Thierry Etienne Joseph Rotty, who describes himself as having been a member of Central Planning at NATO.1 Thus […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] in history’ as its manifesto. 1 At . 2 The Gow memorandum can be read at . 1 reformatted late 2023 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 […]

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