Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] on Mexico City University in the sixties. US students who played sports or hung out with Russian students were expected to report on their conversations to the Embassy where the CIA would either recruit them or warn them not to fraternise with the commies. The recruits would report on other US students who didn’t […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] as temporary police stations. (letter in Leveller Supplement No 2, December 1984) (b) and public order Met. Police ‘exceeded their powers’ in arresting people outside South African embassy. (Times August 2) Met. Commissioner Newman said ‘prevention of public disorder was at the top of their list of priorities’, and 500 men in Police Support […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Hakluyt’s career hinged on patronage motivated by interest in his geographical research. His biographers, Parks and Taylor, are both convinced that when Hakluyt served in the Paris embassy as Sir Edward Stafford’s secretary he was really there as the client and agent of Walsingham to gather geographical information; that is he was an Elizabethan […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] of Reuben Falber appeared in the The Independent 31 May 2006. Falber had been the contact between the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Soviet Embassy in London. Falber collected and disbursed the Soviet government’s secret subsidies to the CPGB from 1958 onwards. The obituary included the misleading statement that ‘The fact […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] Irwin Kimmelman 325 2700 Ron Wiss Kastners Hamdid 667 1384 Kensington Hilton 603 3355 Hans Kunz 28 Chaban 13?7H Geneva Lea – Carl Lande 751 0001 Lybia Embassy 589 5235 Locks – Tom King 203 446 8902 Lenzar – Jim Davis London Rest Topo Gigio – Piccadilly Carlos Place Fulham Road Maeco 703 524 […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] ‘ethnics’ is non-white ones. That is because SIS have always employed the others. For example, SIS diplomat Alexis Forter, who, prior to becoming Counsellor at the British Embassy in Paris was my father’s case officer, was all ‘white ethnic’ – although he preferred the expression ‘White Russian’. He repeated it so often that eventually […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Italy ’79 Committee London 1980 Ruscoe, J Italian Communist Party 1976-81, Macmillan London 1982 Terrorism, fascism, neo-fascism and state terror Dinges J. and Landau S. Assassination on Embassy Row, Writers and Readers London 1980 Herman, Edward The Real Terror Network, South End Press, Boston 1982 Kruger, Henrik The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose Books, […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] timid and ignorant, would fall for a proposal as preposterous as that one. MI5 hardly paused for breath after losing the KGB ‘threat’ contained in the Soviet Embassy and its Trade Mission, before acquiring the domestic terrorism franchise from the Met Special Branch and beginning the process of hyping up the animal rights and […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Later on, if he does not cooperate most fully with his debriefers and handlers, they can always threaten to return him to his country of origin or embassy and to publicize his treachery, which would have horrible consequences for him and his family. In other words, even if a defector was unwilling to lie […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, … Read more