The view from the bridge

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[…] wars: An Explainer’ at or . 19 They didn’t exactly rush to embrace Colin Wallace, for example. correct, we will have to wait until the next big spook scandal to see if it has actually been ‘neutralised’. Finally, I doubt very much that the UK security services are ‘fearful of being exposed further’. Au […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in is actually a part of the larger Erbil International Marathon,63 which includes races of 42km (i.e. marathon) the 12km section and a 4km.64 A right Royal spook. There was a brief media orgasm at the end of the first week of April when it was announced that Prince William had been ‘working’ at […]

South of the border (occasional snippets from)

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] methods to create, probably something only in the capabilities of a state actor’.4 (Emphasis added.) More recently still, testifying at the inquiry into the See . A spook career that can include stints at both 5 and 6 is now much more normal that in the past. A 2021 recruitment post from SIS at […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] National Archives at Kew (NA) hosts ‘An evening with Dame Stella Rimington’.2 It would appear that the NA holds nothing of significance from her time as a spook. As an example, the publicly available files on MI5 monitoring of the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) only extends as far as February of 1934.3 […]

The View from the Bridge

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The View from the Bridge Robin Ramsay Thanks to Nick Must (in particular) and Garrick Alder for editorial and proof-reading assistance with this issue. * new * The higher bullshit There has been more well-intentioned nonsense written by academics about the assassination of JFK than any other subject I have looked at. A classic of […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] look at the same material.13 But where are the documents? The Hess Flight was a conspiracy that certainly involved more than one man, and more than one spook. It was planned and executed in wartime during the era of the telephone. No written Royal Air Force technical report on the successful incursion into British […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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, purveyors of rare books and manuscripts, […]

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