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 […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] and then two come along JOHN STONEHOUSE, MY FATHER The True Story of the Runaway MP Julia Stonehouse London: Icon, 2021, £16.99, h/b Stonehouse Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy Julian Hayes London: Robinson, 2021, £16.99, h/b Robin Ramsay Well here’s a thing: two books, using much of the same material – centrally a file on […]

View from Bridge 86 copy

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 58 21 his then wife)? Why does the SIS still refuse to release the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] website on 23 February, whose headline was ‘Lee Harvey Oswald was instructed by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to assassinate JFK, ex-CIA chief and former head of Romania’s spy service claim in new book’.59 The former Romanian spook is Ion Pacepa. His co-author is R. James Woolsey, head of the CIA from 1993-1995. As a […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] by Giles Turner at or . 19 20 See . 6 Donald Trump the un-intelligent agent All this discussion about whether Donald Trump is an actual Russian spy! I’m not saying that I don’t think he’s capable of being a traitorous bastard, just that the evidence presented thus far is inconclusive. If anything, it’s […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] bombers only did things that made them look like possible bombers with……. likely spies, or in the case of Junaid Babar, through contact with a known American spy. At each point they connected to something that might be called Al Qaeda, they connected through likely spies and at each point that this happened there […]

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

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

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