The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or 2 or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

The view from the bridge

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[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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] Russian disinfo about diseases see or . 1 2 ‘Agca points the finger’, Newsweek, 18 Jul 1983 archived (via the CIA reading room) at or or 3 intelligence, the GRU.4 The CIA, whose assets (Paul Henze, Claire Sterling) began the KGB-dunit thread in the 80s, has offered nothing since then and Vasily Mitrokhin, the […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

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[PDF file]: […] found his temperament suited to the constantly-shifting kaleidoscope of life online. He had drifted into digital selfpromotion, which also allowed him an artistic outlet for his considerable intelligence. The hard-right conservative capitalist Gonzalo Lira, March 2022 reinvented himself as ‘Coach Red Pill’,5 a nickname he admitted was ‘cringey’ marketing. Using this brand, Lira published […]

Chaos and Caliphate: Jihadis and the West in the Struggle for the Middle East by Patrick Cockburn

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[PDF file]: […] ‘was almost always correct on Iraq’. Both quotes point to another of Cockburn’s themes, which is implicit, rather than explicit: the apparent failure of American and British intelligence. I have to write ‘apparent’ because, with the exception of the invasion of Iraq, where we have seen glimpses of the intelligence and may get more […]

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[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

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[…] safe refuge in the United States after “World War II”. Not only did they “find refuge” but they went on to found such organizations as the Central Intelligence Agency, NASA, DARPA and a host of other secret organizations in the United States. If you dig even deeper you will learn that it was in […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

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[…] a ‘substack’ with some of his recent writing on it.9 *new* Truly, the world has changed I got this message recently. Hi Robin, You recently downloaded ” Intelligence Analysts Vs. The Bush Administration.” 84,555 papers on Academia discuss “Intelligence Gathering and Counter-Intelligence.” View 84,555 papers ▸ 84,555 papers! When Lobster began there were none. […]

The Spy Who Would be Tzar: The Mystery of Michal Goleniewski and the Far-Right Underground by Kevin Coogan

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[PDF file]: […] hunts, double (and triple) agents, James Angleton’s paranoia and the Cold War. There’s already a considerable pile of books on this area, some of them by Western intelligence officers. However, Coogan has also has hunted down memoirs, document collections and academic comment from the Soviet, Polish and French sides of the intelligence ‘game’. He […]

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