The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Research Department (IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, usually labour 6 See for an account by former Special Branch officers of recruiting informants among the NUM and for an account of Special Branch’s […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] wife, and sent back to the United States in June 1962. The Thirteenth Department also dispatched Oswald’s case officer, Valery Kostikov, as a diplomat to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, to be available for secret meetings with Oswald. At the time, Mexico was the most desirable place for contact with the Soviet Bloc’s […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] suggests. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF incident, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] neo-Nazi, they fomented an investigation into me by Internal Affairs in Revenue, from which I was cleared. CSIS thought I was funneling money from the South African embassy to Preston Manning’s campaign against Joe Clark. Here, Preston Manning was investigated. This story is told as a first/second-person narrative in chronological time with flashbacks recounting […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] right. ‘An interview in 1988 given by a former Pakistani military official further corroborates this. According to this Pakistani military official, eight months before the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad had asked Pakistani military officials to “to recommend a rebel organization that would make the best use of U.S. aid.”’

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby-JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] boost to support for the IRA in Northern Ireland. It is worth remembering that three days later a large crowd of protesters actually burned down the British Embassy in Dublin in retaliation. How does Kitson deal with this somewhat crucial episode? He tells his readers that he had agreed to send Paras under his […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] relations at the time was facilitated by MI5. For not only did they have the Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.22 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]

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