Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: […] suggestive not conclusive. This group helped remove Jimmy Carter as president in 1980 by arranging that the Iranian state not release the hostages taken from the American embassy until after the presidential election of 1980, which Reagan won. The relationship between America and Saudi Arabia – the real ‘special relationship’ – was cemented with […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] NOT RPT NOT BE ATTENDING BILDERBERG CONFERENCE.’39 A series of follow-up telegrams from Washington DC reiterated that Kissinger’s decision not to attend ‘remains unchanged’ and the US Embassy informed the Swedish Foreign Ministry and other hosts that Kissinger had ‘made other plans for the period.’40 Following a summit meeting in Moscow, Kissinger spent 9 […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] and Air Force Intelligence. Many said Frank Sturgis was CIA, but the assassination files reveal he was actually run by Air Force Intelligence out of the Havana embassy. Anti-Castro Cuban terrorist Antonio Veciana says he met Oswald in Dallas with his own CIA case officer ‘Maurice Bishop’, (aka David Atlee Phillips). Now we read […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
[PDF file]: […] while MSP Ross Thomson declared the trip in his House of Commons register (he became an MP in 2017). All three attributed the gratuity to the US Embassy without reference to the IVLP. Grady and Crawley are members of the British American Parliamentary Group (BAPG). Are we to understand that the BAPG are exempt […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: […] was suddenly transformed from the theoretical to the pragmatic. Johnson: ‘Or some of our folks, including some of the old China Lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying, “Please notify the President that if he’ll hold out till November the 2nd they could get a better deal. And they oughtn’t to be […]