Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] furthered by the provision of money from time to time).’ (6) In the mid-fifties, according to Chester Cooper, the Labour Party ‘was virtually ignored by the American Embassy during the tenure of Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich.’ But he adds a rider: ‘A few of us, however, tried to provide key Labour Party members with some […]

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The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits […]

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KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] as primary research conducted by the author amongst recently released PRO files. Tyler Kent was a junior clerk – one of 200 employees – at the US Embassy in London in 1939-1940. He worked in the room coding and decoding telegrams and other traffic that passed through and emanated from the London Embassy. When […]

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The influence of intelligence services on the British left

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[…] people. Hundreds, maybe thousands, no-one has yet assembled the data of British trade union officials and MPs that had these freebies. The State Department, via the London embassy, was sending back masses of reports. The idea that this was just the role of the CIA is false. None of these British reports have surfaced […]

Things Israeli

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that […]

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JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] WAS MADE IN CAMBRIDGE, ENGLAND TO THE SENIOR REPORTER OF THE CAMBRIDGE NEWS RPT CAMBRIDGE NEWS. THE CALLER SAID ONLY THAT THE REPORTER SHOULD CALL THE AMERICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON FOR SOME BIG NEWS AND THEN RANG OFF. LAST NIGHT AFTER WORD OF THE PRESIDENT’S DEATH WAS RECEIVED THE REPORTER INFORMED THE CAMBRIDGE POLICE […]

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The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] Carter had no idea what he was suggesting. Project Pandora The U.S. government woke up to the reality of psychotronics when from 1960 to 1965 the American Embassy in Moscow was targeted by a mixture of electromagnetic and microwaves causing a wide range of physical and mental illness among U.S. personel serving there, including […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] (sic) of current repressive efforts targeted against the PKI. ’ That ‘burden’ is a reference to the killing of between 100,000 and 1 million people, though the embassy in Indonesia was uncertain about the numbers. In a message of 15 April 1966 to Washington, the embassy acknowledged: ‘We frankly do not know whether the […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] to the Chief of the U.S. Advisory Group in Korea at different times between 1953 and 1961, and was assistant military attache at the Washington D.C. ROK embassy from 1961 to 1964, where he functioned as liaison between the KCIA and the U.S. intelligence agencies. (71) In this latter capacity, he served as one […]

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The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] one of the standard KGB tactics of the period: send a good-looking man romancing among the political lower orders. The KGB man, under cover at the Soviet embassy, bought her lunch, then he bought her lunch again and asked her to get some documents for him, Labour Party policy documents, the kind that would […]

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