Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] she employs is to make a joke of it. When Tony Blair visited the country in May 2007, she was invited to meet him at the British Embassy. The Embassy was ‘rocketed….minutes before Blair arrived – he was running ten minutes late. Two vehicles were destroyed’. She was introduced to him by US General […]
Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] US sought the extradition of al-Liby and al-Fawwaz, as well as Abdel Bary and Ibrahim Eidarous on terrorism charges: at least three were in connection with the Embassy bombings. The Blair Government protected them all – the previous John Major Government granted al-Liby asylum in 1995. In that year, al-Liby’s LIFG joined forces with […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told this author that in the nation’s capital, Tegucigalpa, the three most […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] I discussed this in essay in Lobster 72 at . 14 History occurs in a context not of minutes but years, decades, even centuries. When the US embassy in Iran was seized after the overthrow of the Shah, none of the respectable media explained that the Shah had been installed by the CIA after […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] original form or as photocopies. Then there was the issue of the chronology described in Mitrokhin’s account. According to his version, I had marched into the Soviet embassy in Rabat to offer my services, but that was untrue. Did this assertion appear in the KGB file or in Mitrokhin’s notes, or was it supposition […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] the spring and summer of 1963. Evidently the President vetted only her looks before taking her to bed. Married to a sergeant stationed at the West German embassy, Rometsch had grown up in East Germany and belonged to a Communist youth group before moving to the West with her family in 1955.48 Jack Anderson […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] in the summer, it now turns out that she went to Israel on what she called a holiday and met some Israeli ministers there without telling the embassy. When first asked about it, she said she had told the FCO – by speaking to Boris – and that is was only a couple of […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted to see how socialism was working. While in Moscow they attended several functions at the American embassy and Dr Johnson got to know Lieut-Colonel Philip Faymonville (1888-1962) and Tyler Kent (1911-1988) who both worked there. Faymonville was the first US military attaché to […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] to believe happened.’ ‘I was suddenly accused of issuing visas in return for sex, stealing money from the post account, of being an alcoholic, of driving an embassy vehicle down a flight of stairs, which is extraordinary because I can’t drive. I’ve never driven in my life. I don’t have a driving license. My […]