Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a hybrid regime by the American NGO, Freedom House (9 May 2020); by the University of Gothenburg’s ‘Varieties of Democracy’ project (7 January 2022); and by the intelligence unit of The Economist (15 February 2022). For a definition of hybrid regime, see . 1 See for example, a BBC story datelined 21 January 2020, […]

Fifteen years on from 9/11

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] brother, Salem, was flying down to Florida to publicise a Sarasota school’s reading programme.2 In another DC hotel on September 11 the director general of Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), General Mahmood Ahmed, was having breakfast with Senator Bob Splitting some of these long URLs to fit the footnote space may produce problems. If the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] demolished, in a US court, with the trial of Trump ally Roger Stone who told the Wikileaks story. Stone was found guilty of lying to the House Intelligence Committee. The chief prosecution witness against him was one Randy Credico, who Stone was claiming as his link to Wikileaks. Craig Murray has interviewed Credico at […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of the MI6 plot in the summer of 1995 – approximately eight to nine months before the assassination attempt took place. There where subsequently a number of intelligence coordination meetings between MI5 and MI6 where Shayler says mentions were made of progress – e.g. funding being in place. Annie Machon’s book on their experiences […]

The Dungavel Handicap Scotland, Churchill and Rudolf Hess, 1941

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to Aid Finland, Lord Balfour of Burleigh (Chairman of Lloyds Bank); the Earl of Lytton (Chairman of London Associated Electricity); Sir George MacDonogh (Former Director of Military Intelligence at the War Office and President of Federation of British Industries 1933-1934) and Lord Nuffield. Both the Borenius and Ramsay missions took place after the UK […]

Sir John Sawer’s speech and some aspects of SIS PR

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] has the people and the relationships for SIS to recover. (‘We work with over 200 partner services around the world 1 Sir John defined his products. No intelligence chief does this because they change according to local markets and conditions. 120 Winter 2010 with hugely constructive results.’) PR distraction In the meantime, non-spook colleagues […]

Roswell, the CIA and Dr Edgar Mitchell

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Or would have worked, had the Soviet Union been conducting nuclear tests prior to August 1949. But by then, the Mogul project had already ended. 1 the Intelligence Committee of the Joint Chiefs of Staff which I got with another naval officer who had had many similar experience and we told our story and […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 2010 such as Spruille Braden, were not satisfied; and alongside heightened reforms in Guatemala caused a ‘general uneasiness within the Truman administration,’ 9 leading to increased ‘thin’ intelligence gathering.1 0 The duck test N o matter how thin the evidence was, reports of the possibility of Communism in Guatemala continued. Richard Patterson Jr., Truman’s […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] London. Later, Wynne tries to give the £50 to his controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed that British intelligence had the environs of the Soviet Embassy under photographic surveillance and MI6 could have used that as evidence to show Wynne taking money from the Russians. […]

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