German links to the Hammarskjöld case

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and the West German Ministry of Defence,7 at least one further DO-28A must be added to this list. As the US State Department informed the West German Embassy in Washington on 21 October, this further DO-28A had been disassembled, its components shipped to Portuguese Angola and transported to Kolwezi where they had been put […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

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[PDF file]: […] committees, the executive committee’s seven sub-committees, the members of the various ‘front’ organisations”; not to mention the information that “Mr Dezo Kiss, the Counsellor of the Hungarian Embassy, plays a major role in assisting the development of contact between members of such fronts and Eastern European embassies.” (171) Nor do we believe that Mr […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

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[PDF file]: […] which developed between this Japanese girl, Yaeko – I don’t remember her last name – but I already had given that impression of mine at the American Embassy so they could check on that. She was a Japanese girl, very good looking, who worked, I think, at Neiman-Marcus in Dallas, and was brought into […]

South of the border

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] By arrangement with MI6, Wynne provided ‘an out-of-date model of the type required’ and is paid £50. The exchange takes place in ‘the yard outside the Soviet Embassy’ in London. Later, Wynne tries to give the £50 to his controllers but they tell him to keep it for himself. It can be safely assumed […]

The Trump administration’s attempts to influence Julian Assange

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] mystery, Nigel Farage Another notable visitor of Julian Assange’s in 2017 was Nigel Farage. On Thursday 9 March of that year, Farage was seen leaving the Ecuadorian embassy. A Buzzfeed reporter had been tipped off about the surreptitious visit and accosted Farage at the scene, asking him if he’d been to see Assange. However, […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] via Tony Frewin, pointed me at a collection of conversations with former US diplomats.60 This is in an interview with Carl Dillery, Political/Military Officer, at the U.S. embassy in London, 1973-1976. ‘DILLERY: Take an important case. Thatcher’s current head of loyal opposition, Neil Kinnock, was a junior MP when I was there. Our Labor […]

View from Bridge

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[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] via Tony Frewin, pointed me at a collection of conversations with former US diplomats.59 This is in an interview with Carl Dillery, Political/Military Officer, at the U.S. embassy in London, 1973-1976. ‘DILLERY: Take an important case. Thatcher’s current head of loyal opposition, Neil Kinnock, was a junior MP when I was there. Our Labor […]

The Siege: A Six-Day Hostage Crisis and the Daring Special-Forces Operation that Shocked the World by Ben Macintyre

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[PDF file]: […] Rusty Firmin, was published more than ten years ago and – one suspects with good reason – is described as ‘The definitive inside story of the Iranian Embassy Siege’.1 If you’ll pardon the pun, the subject has truly been done to death. How, then, can The Siege add anything? Well it can’t, really, can […]

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