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... Giles Scott-Smith, 'Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, the US Embassy's International Visitor Program and the Labour Party in the 1980s'.( [2]) I made only a passing reference to this then because it arrived just as I was finishing that issue. The information in this paper on the involvement of the US London embassy in Labour Party politics, with Peter Mandelson prominent, ought to be front-page news. But that is unlikely to happen (even if the British media were made aware of the information). Some of the British media wouldn't use it because it would embarrass both Blair and the Americans; some because it would embarrass the Americans (even ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 27 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-16.htm
... had a telegram from (President) Johnson asking us to go slow on defence cuts East of Suez. This was the second time a foreign power had got to know Cabinet business. In these two cases, being the U.S., it wasn't serious. Nonetheless cabinet business was secret and we should none of us chat about it at embassies and so on.' (1) The Labour Cabinet apparently had a mole. Chapman Pincher has written that the Labour Party had been 'penetrated for many years by agents of the CIA...' (2) 'I know the identity of one former Cabinet Minister who was in regular touch with the CIA.' (3 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-02.htm
... At the final selection meeting questions that had actually been drafted by Moss Evans, the General Secretary of the TGWU, were planted in the audience and asked with the object of rattling Huckfield. It worked. Blair was selected and duly elected in 1983. Commits to the USA His potential was spotted early on – most notably by the US Embassy. In 1986 Blair went on a month's free tour of the US, paid for by the State Department.( 2) Having been given a significant front bench role by Kinnock – the real architect of the hard work of changing the Labour Party – Blair was most disappointed at the 1992 General Election result. His reaction to it ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-34.htm
... 2001, in which he stated: 'America's counter-terrorism programme in the Middle East and its environs is a myth.'(1) A couple of months before the Twin Towers attack, Gerecht pointed out the reluctance of the CIA to conduct operations under 'non-official cover', their refusal to engage in local events and culture beyond the business/embassy circuit and the 'total absence of staff trained in local languages' – a cultural and operational nightmare that conjures up images of men in black suits approaching the Mujahidin saying; 'Gee, you seen an Arab dude with a towel round his head?' And it gives a little insight into exactly why they still haven't found Osama. Similarly ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue47/lob47-36.htm
... in May 1965, over the legal objections of Lockheed's counsel, Lockheed commissions in Indonesia had been redirected to a new contract and company set up by Lockheed's long-time local agent or middleman. (88) Lockheed internal memos at the time show no reasons for the change, but a later memo reports from the Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta that there were 'some political considerations behind it'. (89) If this is true, it would suggest that in May 1965, five months before the coup, Lockheed had redirected its payoffs to a new political eminence, at the risk (as its Assistant Chief Counsel pointed out) of being sued for default on ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-01.htm
... satisfied customers, without anyone in authority realising how big the business had become. The BEL scatters Following a series of raids on the BEL in America, by early 1973 the authorities estimated that some 20 members were in hiding or in exile- including Stark. Timothy Leary ended up in Afghanistan, after fleeing the US, but the US Embassy evidently knew he was coming and got the Afghan authorities to deport him back to the USA. Ron Stark visited Afghanistan at least once with a plan to set up BEL facilities for making hallucinogenic THC derivative from Afghan hash oil. Thanks to Kemp's efforts, Stark had worked out the first eight of the fourteen stages of the THC synthesis ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-03.htm
... volunteers saw no action. This did not discourage either Ramsay or Stokes from fresh efforts. Ramsay concentrated Right Club activities on espionage, assisted by Anna Wolkoff, Tyler Kent and a small social circle.(9) In March 1940 Griffiths tells us that Wolkoff leaked the British/French plans to seize Narvik to William Joyce via the Italian Embassy in London. This is bombshell no. 2.(10) By the end of March Stokes had the support of Lord Beaverbrook and the I.L.P. for his peace plans.... which he continued to push until July and August 1940.(11) It all came to nothing. Following the debacle in Norway ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 26 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-05.htm
... an occasion in August 1995, when the "[ UN Military Observers] in Zagreb organized a press conference on large-scale human rights violations by the Bosnian Croats during the recently completed Operation Storm (carried out with U.S. assistance). The room was full of journalists and things were just about to start when a official from the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb suddenly entered and announced that a press conference was about to begin at the embassy where information would be released on aerial photos of possible mass graves around Srebrenica. The room emptied immediately.' When someone enlarges the Herman-Peterson thesis to book length, part of the extended version will be interviews with some of the non-American participants in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Jun 2008 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue55/lob55-20.htm
... , except from 'official sources': "a breakdown of the Communist Party's 42 member executive, its 16 member political committee, its full-time staff, the district committees, the executive committee's seven sub-committees, the members of the various 'front' organisations"; not to mention the information that "Mr Dezo Kiss, the Counsellor of the Hungarian Embassy, plays a major role in assisting the development of contact between members of such fronts and Eastern European embassies." (171) Nor do we believe that Mr Stewart-Smith did all the research for his 1974 Not To Be Trusted while simultaneously an MP, and running a publishing company, a monthly journal and a distribution company. ( ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 25 - 01 Apr 1986 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue11/lob11-11.htm
... suspicious is the role of Federico Vaughn, the supposed Sandinista official, who appears to have been a US spy all along. An AP dispatch (Omaha World-Herald, 7-29-88) disclosed that subcommittee staffers called Vaughn's phone number in Managua and spoke to a "domestic employee" who said the house had been "continuously rented" by a US embassy official since 1981. The unnamed embassy official, according to Hughes, was among the group of US officials recently expelled by the Nicaraguan government after a violent political demonstration in July. No word of the Hughes hearings appeared in the Washington Post or the New York Times. Instead the Times ran a brief item in its Sunday national edition ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 24 - 01 Nov 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue17/lob17-13.htm
