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... 1997 he told a Preston business woman, for whom he was a financial adviser: 'I'm the man who put Owen Oyston where he is today.' The Murrin campaign cost Oyston £9 million, lost in a single day on the Stock Exchange, £300,000 in Inland Revenue penalty payments, £10 million in a wrecked cable TV deal, the chairmanship of Trans World Communications plc and the almost unquantifiable cost of dealing with years of successive investigations by the following authorities: HM Customs& Excise, US Drug Enforcement Administration, the Stock Exchange, the Takeover Panel, IMRO, Lancashire Constabulary, and Merseyside Constabulary. A World In Action TV programme depicted Murrin as ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 117 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-03.htm
... for one bit. On pages 255-256 is a potted biography of the late Albert Meltzer, with whom Christie was closely associated until Meltzer's death in 1996. Leaving aside the misspelling of Kate Sharpley Library as Kate Shipley Library over the page, the following sentence struck me: 'A lifelong trade unionist, he fought Moseleys Blackshirts in the Battle of Cable Street and was involved in the Cairo Muutiny in the British Army in 1946.' The 'Muutiny' (sic) bit makes you wonder, as does spelling 'Mosley' as 'Moseley'. Two mistakes already, but the big one is that Meltzer did not fight Mosley's Blackshirts in the Battle of Cable Street. Meltzer's account of Cable ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 90 - 01 Jun 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue49/lob49-47.htm
... become 'Lee Harvey Oswald'.(8) For this reason I shall refer to 'Harvey Lee Oswald' as the suppressed name, and 'Lee Harvey Oswald' as the public one.(9) We find the same conversion or suppression of the name 'Harvey Lee Oswald', and its replacement by 'Lee Harvey Oswald', in a cable of November 29, 1963, from the FBI Legat in Bern, Switzerland,(10) and again in documents from the Secret Service.(11) So many scattered and unexplained references to 'Harvey Lee Oswald' attest to at least one suppressed archetypal document we do not have. The FBI's first question to Robert Oswald on November ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 82 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-01.htm
... business in the same area in 1997 he was getting plenty of work from just one small advertisement, for a 'man with a van'. He later became aware that calls were not coming in, and now, with five advertisements in various local directories, two web-sites and three different phone numbers, (two land lines- BT and Cable London- and a mobile) and a buoyant economy Kennedy says he gets virtually no serious enquiries, (during the last month (April-May 2000) he reports only one or two genuine enquiries per day) the majority of calls being what he describes as 'spoof' calls- mainly false enquiries. For example, Kennedy reports getting veiled ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 69 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-07.htm
... ' see to that. But this is no reason to get sniffy about what (little) there is on offer. Where the history of the British State goes, the occasional crust is always better than no bread. Just how far we are from the American situation is beautifully if unwittingly demonstrated by James Cable's review in International Affairs. Cable, actually Sir James Cable, ex Ambassador Cable, focuses on Verrier's 'startling assertion' that Lord Normanbrook, Secretary to the Cabinet, "used SIS liaison with CIA as a means of telling the President what was really at stake," just before Suez. Cable is apparently shocked by this claim. Assuming his reaction to be genuine ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 54 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-05.htm
... American officials commenting on the role of U.S. aid in this period have taken credit for assisting the anti-communist seizure of power, without ever hinting at any degree of conspiratorial responsibility in the planning of the bloodbath. The impression created is that U.S. officials remained aloof from the actual planning of events; and we can see from recently declassified cable traffic how carefully the U.S. government fostered this image of detachment from what was happening in Indonesia. (83) In fact, however, the U.S. government was lying about its involvement. In Fiscal Year 1965, a period when the New York Times claimed 'all United States aid to Indonesia was stopped', the number of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 34 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-01.htm
... domestic policies and a type of quasi-socialist planning. He was also not from the US patrician elite. Like Joseph Kennedy, Tyler Kent was an 'isolationist'. Unlike Kennedy he was prone to conspiracy theories about Jewish-Bolshevism etc. etc. and appears in this account as an irritating little man. Kent began keeping copies of 'interesting' US diplomatic cables for his own 'private collection'. He eventually had over 1500. They included correspondence between Roosevelt and Churchill about assistance the US – which was then neutral – could give the UK. Kent had also requested a move to the US Embassy in Berlin and, one presumes, would have taken his collection of secret diplomatic correspondence with him ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Dec 2005 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue50/lob50-48.htm
... Sweden, there have been more subtle ways of achieving the same objective. A classic case of collaboration and deniability involves the case of three British residents who were questioned at Gatwick Airport in November 2002. After 4 days in custody they were cleared of suspicion and released to fly off to Gambia. MI5, according to documents later declassified, cabled the CIA (called 'a foreign intelligence agency' in the documents) and said that they were Islamic extremists and that they were flying to Gambia. A subsequent cable reminded the CIA of the first cable and gave the men's flight details and said that they were associates of Abu Qatada, a radical Muslim cleric. They were arrested in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-40.htm
... life (1856-1943) in voluminous detail. In his prime, roughly 1885 to 1910, he had enormous successes. This included the invention of radio, fluorescent lighting, alternating current as a means of power supply, and, triumphantly (Tesla thought) the use of radio waves to transmit power anywhere in the world without the expense of cabling, power generation facilities etc.(1) This proved his undoing. The US monopolists and financiers who originally funded and encouraged his work (J. P. Morgan, Bernard Baruch, Rockefeller, Astor etc) ditched him at this point.(2) They owned contemporary electrical power generating and distribution facilities, made a lot ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-16.htm
... debate nicely then, because Big Brother had a monopoly on computing power. But some cracks were already appearing in this pre-cyberspace version of the problem. In 1978 the Carter administration admitted that the Soviets were tapping into microwave links in New York, Washington, and San Francisco; microwave was like a sieve compared to the old underground intercity telephone cables. That was only a minor irritant compared to January 15, 1990, when half of the entire AT&T network crashed due to a single software bug. The technicians in the hardware lab where I worked used to kid the software engineers, saying that if civilization had developed the way programmers write programs, one woodpecker could come ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 16 - 01 Dec 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue26/lob26-01.htm
