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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] matriarchy that was, in turn, under the spell of a Bible-hating, charismatic sadist named Jim Jones Escorted by Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy, Congressman Ryan and a part of his contingent visited the remote commune on the afternoon of November 17, a Friday. Though the visit was unwelcome, and […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] Revolutionnaire Libanaise (FARL), in 1984. Mouhajer’s release was ordered by Judge Gilles Boulouque, the judge who broke the Franco-Iranian diplomatic deadlock of 1987 by permitting the Iranian Embassy official (and probable SAVAMA officer) Vahid Gordji to emerge from his Embassy refuge and leave France in November. (Guardian 26 March 1988) Within a month Marchiani […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
[…] On September 21, 1976, a sophisticated bomb killed former Chilean Foreign Minister Orlando Letelier and an American friend while they were driving to work down Washington’s fashionable Embassy Row. Two weeks later, on October 6, a Cuban commercial airliner exploded in mid-air over the Caribbean, killing all 73 passengers on board. Confessions in the […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] the strange and sometimes subtle effects of these radio frequencies, which is why their exposure standards have always been much stricter. Soviet microwave bombardment of the U.S. Embassy in Moscow prompted the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Project PANDORA (later renamed), whose ostensible goal was to determine whether these pulsations – – reportedly at […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] 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 […]