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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)
[…] the research by Giles Scott-Smith on the US State Department’s funding of a big freebie trip to the US for Mrs Thatcher in 1967, after the US embassy in London had spotted her as a possible future prime minister. Scott-Smith has more information on the Net. His ‘Searching for the Successor Generation: Public Diplomacy, […]
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 […]
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 […]