Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] – and for them that means the royals.’ (Interview with Richard Tomlinson. Available at: http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/tomlin2.html) One account says that six MI6 agents were stationed in the British Embassy in Paris on the weekend of the crash. At least one officer was detailed to shadow Diana and Dodi after their arrival from Sardinia (Stuart Qualtrough […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
Last year, in the search for independent corroboration of some of Colin Wallace’s story, I talked to a number of ‘Irish hands’, journalists who had been in Northern Ireland while Wallace was working there. One was Kevin Dowling, the Sunday Mirror correspondent there from 1970-74. Dowling was reluctant to talk much about that period of … Read more
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] Gaitskell’s closest ally in the trade unions. When Watson travelled down to London he didn’t stay in a hotel; he stayed in a room at the American Embassy. Had this been known at the time the entire history of the British Labour Party in the 1960s might have been different. This is a very […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. Crozier had been told of their role as ‘confidential contacts’ by a ‘senior KGB defector in London’. That can only have been […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] to be done. And unlike CND which raised its own money as far as I know, young Mr Butler, we are told, got $1000 from the US embassy in London to take a couple of chums across to the States to beat the bushes for private sector funding for his project.(12) Robin Cook at […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] Mind Control (reviewed below). Vialls now believes that, programmed in some fashion, he shot Fletcher from an office of the Hughes Tool Company close to the Libyan Embassy. (Hughes Tool has been a cover for CIA.) The death of Penkofsky: a modern myth continues In Lobster 27 I commented on the developing myth surrounding […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
One of the aims of this column is to open up new lines of enquiry for parapolitical specialists. It might seem very odd to start with the name of Reinhard Gehlen, long-since dead founder of the BND, the German Security Service. Reinhard Gehlen, to over-simplify a very complex tale, bought his way into the Western … Read more
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] Minister), with the aim – among others – of saving the CIA listening posts on the Soviet/Iranian border at Capkan and Behshahr. The capture of the American Embassy in November 1979 wrecked these plans however, and it was only after a year that the CIA managed to re-establish contacts with an old friend, former […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material on Project Pandora, the US investigation of the Soviet irradiation of the US embassy in Moscow, aspects of which, when digested, will no doubt appear in these columns. Meanwhile here is another example of the duplicity of the British state. […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] in promoting the political project now so universally respected for its adherence to transparency, accuracy and straight dealing with journalists. Hobsbawn was the organiser of the Washington Embassy party for her pals in the British American Project after New Labour’s election victory in 1997. ‘Big Swing to BAP’ was the headline on the BAP […]
