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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] to gain access to vulnerable children.’11 I think the British state’s plan is to keep kicking Kincora into the long grass until all the witnesses from the intelligence world are dead. Grauniadia Off-guardian.org, the site which monitors the Guardian, has a splendid piece on the Guardian’s initial handling of the Panama offshore accounts story, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama programme in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]

Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: Some agent protection issues and more comment on SIS PR Corinne Souza SIS lifestyle management services A ll intelligence organisations can provide expertise and insider knowledge of a personal nature to staff, agents and favoured others. This may range from the mundane: home repairs carried out by vetted suppliers, say, to the more glitzy, […]

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[…] closely monitored by senior Agency officers—including the assistant deputy director of plans, the acting chief of operations in the Western Hemisphere, the liaison officer for the Counter intelligence Staff, and the chief of the Mexico Desk—all of who signed off on a cable about Oswald six week before JFK was killed. In short, the […]

Some thoughts on The Russia Report

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: Some thoughts on The Russia Report Nick Must Ahhh yes . . . the Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament’s Russia Report, the cushion on which the well-upholstered posterior of Prime Minister Boris Johnson sat for more than a year. I can only assume that year was required to deliberately introduce some comedic errors, […]

Miscellaneous reviews

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[PDF file]: […] it is still possible to navigate through this foggy, booby-trapped interior landscape; but he also shows how difficult the journey becomes once the mob begins to gather. Intelligence Wars American Secret History from Hitler to Al-Qaeda Thomas Powers New York Review Books, 2002, £16.99, h/b Somewhere between an academic and a journalist, Thomas Powers […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] former BOSS agent, Gordon Winter. Interviewed by Tom Mangold, for the Panorama program in 1981 that was the first BBC TV documentary about the British security and intelligence services, Gordon Winter said: : ‘British intelligence has a saying that if there is a left-wing movement in Britain bigger than a football team our man […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) were instigated. One figure who played a part in the preparations for what would become the ‘Gladio’ networks was British military intelligence officer (and future Conservative MP) officer Airey Neave. From late May of 1942, Neave was an officer in the ‘escape and evasion’ department MI9 and engaged […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Burgess (published by Faber and Faber).2 Lewis engages in much speculation but the most substantial material concerns what Lewis was told when he made contact with an intelligence officer: ‘ “You realise,”said the spook, as we sat on a bench in Berkeley Square, opposite Maggs Bros. Ltd, by appointment to Her Majesty the Queen, […]

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