Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)
[…] X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly trade in Red Mercury…’, and so forth. It was a great mish-mash of facts, factoids and rumours – […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)
[…] Gennadyevich Pokrovskiy (later expelled from Britain), who called himself ‘George’. My arrest was linked to the defection of Oshchenko, who was a KGB Colonel at the Russian Embassy in Paris between 1985 and 1992 before he came to Britain. The Prosecution claimed I was recruited to the KGB by Oshchenko in the mid-1970s, when […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
Ed. Jon Melissen London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005, h/b, £50.00 Just after World War 1, a group of the liberal-left in Britain began campaigning against orthodox – i.e. secret – diplomacy. It had caused the mind-bogglingly stupid carnage of World War 1, they argued, and had to go. This was the Union for Democratic Control […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] of the Israeli government. Two months later Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the no. 2 in the Israeli embassy in London. According to the Sunday Times of 2 July 2000, Levy was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] the tale, let’s knock some of the conspiracy theory on the head. I am well aware of how the ‘Zionist machine’ works and how manipulative the Israeli Embassy can be. But even Labour Friends of Israel is no AIPAC. Nearly all the Old Labour Right in the Party were pro-Israel, pro-nuclear armament, pro-EU and […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)
[…] author after a Freedom of Information Act appeal filed three years ago. The aim of Project Pandora was to study the microwave frequencies targeted on the US Embassy in Moscow by the Soviets during the 1960s and 70s. All the sources quoted in this paper were included in the Project Pandora papers released to […]