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 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] gain access to vulnerable children.’ 7 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 4 5 Goddard […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] page 178 Glenn Sample writes: During the research and investigation phase of this book I once had the opportunity to communicate with a retired member of the intelligence community. He related to me about an event he once attended, a luncheon at the Petroleum Club in San Antonio, in 1973. ‘I couldn’t pass up […]

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[…] and Garrick Alder for editorial help with Lobster. Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] it had become clear that were elections to be held the government in Hanoi would win and the Saigon regime would collapse. Despite this certainty and the intelligence showing that there was absolutely no popular support for the elite in Saigon, the decision was made to have Ngô Dình Diem deposed in favour of […]

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The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Sloppy stuff from Covert Action ‘Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Came to Power in Carefully Planned Operation Coordinated by Western Intelligence Services, Says Former U.S. Diplomat’. Thus the headline in a piece by Covert Action’s editor, Jeremy Kuzmarov, on 4 August 2023.1 The article’s subheading piles it on: […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] the smear was something concocted years before in Northern Ireland for which Wilkinson was just the messenger boy. (Being the conduit for the nonsense from military and intelligence agencies was one of his roles.) When this was demonstrated to Channel Four’s management, Wilkinson lost his gig as ITN’s ‘consultant’ on terrorism. None of this […]

Operation Mindfuck: QAnon and the cult of Donald Trump, by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] to remind myself of it. After some chapters of autobiography, Cooper has this on p. 27: On the day that I learned that the Office of Naval Intelligence had participated in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and that it was the Secret Service agent driving the limo that had shot Kennedy in […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] had ingeniously argued that the last war crimes prisoner of Spandau in Berlin was not in fact Hess, but a double, substituted with the connivance of British intelligence. Rzheshevsky seemed surprised that, unlike the KGB files, the British files on Hess were closed for research until 2017 by an act of Parliament. To be […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] in British politics’, as the clunky headline in the Daily Mail had it.27 Two Russians were named in the article: Ruslan Aleksandrovich Peretyatko, who is an FSB intelligence officer, and Andrey Stanislavovich 26 or 27 9 Korinets. On the same day it was reported in the US: A federal grand jury in San Francisco […]

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