Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] leaders and other champions of ‘family values’ supported his candidacy against former Senator Hillary Clinton.2 Trump appears to be surviving even apparently calculated leaks by hostile U.S. intelligence officials of unsubstantiated reports that Russian spies ‘tried to blackmail him with sex tapes’ that showed him cavorting with prostitutes in a Moscow hotel room.3 Books […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] career in Florida took off in earnest. By a strange twist of fate, these two eminent and wellconnected Floridians were in place at the top of Washington’s intelligence oversight hierarchy when Atta and co. flew into the twin towers: Goss as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee (since 1997) and Graham as Chairman of […]

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939-45 by Max Hastings

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] once of Bletchley and later Master of St John’s College, Cambridge – asked Hastings, ‘that in peacetime the best brains of our society wasted their lives in intelligence?’ Hugh Trevor-Roper, another brainy historian seconded to intelligence work in the war, memorably compared the old lags in MI6 to a ‘colony of coots in an […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

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[…] the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus Abrams—three men with no known connection to the assassination or intelligence agencies. In fact, Holt’s claims are rarely cited in the JFK literature; there is no-one I can I saw it at . 8 My attempts to […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] the Dallas Police Department released records identifying the “three tramps” as Harold Doyle, John Gedney, and Gus Abrams—three men with no known connection to the assassination or intelligence agencies. In fact, Holt’s claims are rarely cited in the JFK literature; there is no-one I can I saw it at . 8 My attempts to […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

See also: Misleading Parliament – Appendices

[PDF file]: […] the Information Research Department (IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given by the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence at the Northern Ireland Office. Moreover, an internal MI5 memo, dated 22 February 1990, and addressed to MI5’s Legal Adviser, Bernard Sheldon (copied to the MI5 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] might be, a Soviet agent, and that the Labour Party was influenced, if not controlled by, the KGB. This faction had allies within the Army, among former intelligence officers, the police and CIA assets, notably the Institute for the Study of Conflict. I presume that this MI5 faction was feeding the derogatory material to […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] 15 years by conspiracy theories, many of which were obvious nonsense.9 I wonder if some smart alecs in the White House, or its allies in the US intelligence community, didn’t help to create or propagate them. Jonathan Marshall W hen Lobster began in 1983 there were only two similar publications: Intelligence and Parapolitics out […]

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