[PDF file]: South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay *new* In defence of paranoia I am grateful to David Ciza for pointing me towards ‘In defence of paranoia: rethinking politics after the Epstein Files’ by Dr. David S. Moon.1 The author’s summary at the beginning of his essay states: This article argues that a reflexive dismissal of […]
[…] of James Angleton’s CI/SIG Division where the mole was thought to have burrowed into. The hunt involved sending Oswald to Russia as a marked card dangling U2 spy plane secrets. The kicker is that the CIA molehunter, Bruce Solie, was in fact the mole who was in the perfect position to thwart the hunt […]
The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay 18 August 2026 Who is my enemy’s enemy? ‘The Russia question’ (pre 1990, the Soviet question) – viz. since they are antiAmerican and anti-NATO, should we not support them? – remains an issue on the left of British politics. For some the answer is ‘Yes: my enemy’s enemy […]
[PDF file]: […] for this book’ (p. 278): Reynolds close friendship with MI6’s head of station in Berlin, Frank Foley. He rejects the idea that Reynolds was some sort of spy, but nevertheless this relationship obviously need further exploration and one can only hope that Wainewright digs further. Reynolds returned to Britain, wrote When Freedom Shrieked, and, […]
[…] of James Angleton’s CI/SIG Division where the mole was thought to have burrowed into. The hunt involved sending Oswald to Russia as a marked card dangling U2 spy plane secrets. The kicker is that the CIA molehunter, Bruce Solie, was in fact the mole who was in the perfect position to thwart the hunt […]
South of the Border (occasional snippets from) Nick Must I hate to say ‘I told you so’. . . . In Lobster 90 I reviewed Ben Macintyre’s The Siege, about the Iranian Embassy siege in 1980.1 In that I commented that, due to its ‘amalgam of fact and fiction’ along with an ‘(albeit brief) appearance […]
