The DFS, Silvia Duran and the CIA-Mafia connection

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] 27, 1963, meaning that an alleged third visit the next day did not actually occur. Either from this visit or some earlier event, the visitor to the Embassy was known to authorities as ‘Harvey Lee Oswald’. The visitor said he was a Communist. The corroboration of the suppressed testimony by the original visa application […]

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A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] rid of’. ‘Any new government that is worth its salt’ would then ‘have to take drastic action against individual extremists’.(34) A fortnight later, in September 1951, the embassy was noting its preference ‘for a change of government to be engineered’.(35) An adviser at the British embassy, Colonel Wheeler, explained on 29 September that ‘combined […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] of MI5, as the ‘Red Army’ are based at the London Embassies of the Soviet Union and her satellites. The KGB’s British headquarters is at the Soviet Embassy in Kensington Palace Gardens. The consular section nearby is staffed exclusively by KGB men, and others are to be found at the Soviet trade delegation offices […]

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Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] officer says. ” He was a Russian official in Mexico City working for the CIA. We did our own inquiries and found a good candidate – an embassy KGB man who was probably a ‘walk-in’, volunteering information to the CIA.” (16) So, in 1963, when Oswald went to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, […]

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Is Libya still the prime suspect for the murder of WPC Fletcher?

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] details of that sensational episode. Fairly quickly after this appalling crime, expressions of disquiet with official explanations were voiced. If guns had been taken into the Libyan embassy, surely the intelligence agencies would have known? If there had been a Libyan embassy plan to fire at the anti-Gaddafi demonstrators on that fateful day on […]

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US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] blessings” to the post-coup provisional government and assured him that the US was “on standby to help if needed”. These claims are vigorously denied by the US embassy in Fiji.(Evening Post, May 26 1987) The 1982 election American involvement in the previous election sets the scene for interpreting what was behind the coup. Outside […]

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International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] the union to quit and start a break-away: standard union-splitting tactics, no doubt well known to U.S. labor veterans like Brown. But while acknowledging that ‘The American embassy was an open house for elements of every political hue in the CGT’, MacShane then tries to qualify this by informing us that ‘the American embassy […]

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Afterword: the search for “Maurice Bishop”

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] it was an officer called Kirkpatrick. CIA officer Ann Goodpasteur is believed to have told an untruth to the HSCA about a picture taken at the Soviet Embassy on October 1 1963. She says delay until October 10th in informing headquarters was because of the unsuccessful efforts to identify the “unidentified man” – possibly […]

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Outlawing the Naming of Agents

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] what is often known as ‘light’ cover. The term serves as a reminder that it is a simple task for the local counter-espionage outfit to determine which embassy staff are genuine diplomats. Nevertheless the embassy has several advantages over locations outside: access to embassy facilities (archives, communications etc), diplomatic immunity and natural opportunities to […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Peter Lunn, the leader of English espionage there was Womerthly (sic), and currently it is Derbyshire who works in the disguise of a secretary in the British Embassy. In the Embassy and in other English representative organizations the following have worked as Agents: McKnot (sic), Roderick Clube (He was recently expelled from Baghdad because […]

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