The view from the bridge

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 – […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] COUNSELLOR BONN. NOW ENGAGED IN LEGAL HISTORICAL RESEARCH AND SDP/ALLIANCE POLITICAL WORK. BARNES, RICHARD CUMBERLAND B 19.7.12 PEMBROKE COLL OXFORD MI6(C) 1940 HM FORCES 1946 SECONDED TO EMBASSY ATHENS 1947 TRANSFERRED TO UK DELEGATION TO UNSCOB 1948 1ST SEC (LOCAL) ATHENS 1950 FO 1953 STUDENT NATO DEFENCE COLL PARIS 1ST SEC UK DELEGATION UN […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] ON MI5 COMPUTERISATION PROJECT (N.S. 5/3/82) DAVIS, PROF. NORMAN MBE (1945) B. 16/5/13 D. 2/12/89 MERTON COLL. OXFORD -36 LECTURER SOFIA 39-46 ‘GOVERNMENT SERVICE MAINLY ABROAD’ -39 EMBASSY SOFIA SECTION D SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION -41 MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT GHQ CAIRO -45 QUEEN MARY COLL. LONDON -49 PROF. OF ENGLISH OXFORD UNI. 59-80 EMERITUS FELLOW […]

Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] rocked by scandals of bribes and manipulation by foreign agencies. This disquiet was reflected by the expulsion between 1982 and 1985 of 11 American ‘diplomats’ from the embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Madras. (1) With Pakistan as America’s only unquestioning ally in the region, the death of Zia alone would have enormously […]

Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] for many years, on whom there is a substantial appendix. Sparrow, one of the earliest UK defenders of the Warren Commission, was in touch with the US Embassy at this time, talked with ‘Embassy officials’ about this subject; and heeded their advice and agreed not to debate the Warren Commission conclusions with Mark Lane […]

Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Kent and a small social circle.(9) In March 1940 Griffiths tells us that Wolkoff leaked the British/French plans to seize Narvik to William Joyce via the Italian Embassy in London. This is bombshell no. 2.(10) By the end of March Stokes had the support of Lord Beaverbrook and the I.L.P. for his peace plans…… […]

Our leader

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] Huckfield. It worked. Blair was selected and duly elected in 1983. Commits to the USA His potential was spotted early on – most notably by the US Embassy. In 1986 Blair went on a month’s free tour of the US, paid for by the State Department. (2) Having been given a significant front bench […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us that everyone going in and out of the Embassy […]

A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ issue of the magazine shortly after Clive Ponting […]

The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] less than 24 hours after the shooting – LBJ and Hoover had this curious exchange. LBJ: Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September? (emphasis added). Hoover: No, that’s one angle that’s very confusing, for this reason – we have up here the tape and the […]

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