The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] is the latter, how do they handle the cognitive dissonance they must receive every time they look at a news report? or 11 12 or 13 5 Spy cops The ‘spy cops’ inquiry has restarted. I went back to the list of groups the Metropolitan Police had thought it worth penetrating.14 This is incomplete […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] have omitted information known to them which conflicts with their overall presentation of the so-called facts. I also suspect that they have edited commentary so that “The Spy” narrative can be maintained throughout. Ms Stonehouse does indeed show that this is the case. However, as she reports on her site: ‘Ofcom said they couldn’t […]

A key for a Clockwork Orange

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] not. Andrew Biswell dismisses the espionage rumours with the comment: ‘here is nothing among Burgess’s private diaries or financial papers to suggest that he was paid to spy on the Russians.’ Indeed not but, in any case, that is not what Burgess’s Leningrad adventures appear to suggest. This episode is unmistakably a ‘dangle’: Burgess […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as 58 21 his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute whistle blowers and enemies of power elites. Zersetzen is the biggest threat to […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Special Access, one of the highest in government, I couldn’t get answers. It wasn’t until February 2008 that I learned that CSIS thought I was an American spy. I had done nothing to justify this. I complained to the Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC), and in so doing I revealed that the Rt. Hon. […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] however, considered to be a threat to security”. Horton commented: 1/ If “Mr Wilkes was never considered to be a threat to security”, why did the SIS spy on him for decades (and on people close to him, such as his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the bulk of […]

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