Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Soviets because he had been blackmailed or because he truly believed it, he had indeed been a victim of the Great Game of espionage. None of the intelligence Curiously, Gillman and Midolo report that Worsthorne was described as a good contact by the KGB London rezident and double agent Oleg Gordievsky. Murder in Cairo […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] this current issue. Much of this was interesting to me. For one thing, NFB has continued doing what Lobster used to do: surveying published material on the intelligence and security services and producing synopses of it. There is a long essay about Lockerbie; and, while I am no expert on this subject, I didn’t […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Contingencies Unit the year before at Windscale; the ‘stay behind’ aspect was essentially a cover story. The context The mid-1970s was a turbulent period for the Anglo-American intelligence and security services. In the United States, in the wake of Watergate the CIA was under scrutiny by Congress and journalists as never before. CIA officers, […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] by the disappearance of the boat’ – or so the FBI was told by the CIA, who in turn had received their information from the US Coastguard Intelligence Service. Since the ban on anti-Cuban covert action had been imposed by the US federal government and was being enforced through the State Department, the possibility […]

The Crimes of Empire by Carl Boggs

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] point. Here, we discover, a litany of embedded journalists, an ‘award-winning reporter’, Pentagon operatives, propaganda, disinformation, reports with ‘no factual grounding,…no foundation even in CIA and other intelligence data’. Naked geopolitical objectives are uncovered at every turn in a long litany of evidence pointing to systemic criminality to wage war beneath the usual verbiage […]

Asil Nadir: another victim of the arms-to-Iraq conspiracy?

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Nadir’s request for a transfer from a British to a Turkish prison, some of his supporters uploaded to their website, jancom.org, a document, described as a CIA intelligence report, naming two British former SAS men as the killers of Dr Gerald Bull, the designer of Saddam Hussein’s socalled supergun. The unsolved murder of the […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

View from the Bridge

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[…] U.S. officials’ willingness do whatever was needed to curtail Soviet influence in the Third World. Drawing on declassified White House documents and records of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, this article examines the parallel but largely unknown story of U.S. dealings with right-wing extremists in one of the founding members of the North Atlantic […]

View from the bridge

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[…] column in the previous Lobster, is the official US euphemism for a wide range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck […]

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