Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] completed Operation Storm (carried out with U.S. assistance). The room was full of journalists and things were just about to start when a official from the U.S. Embassy in Zagreb suddenly entered and announced that a press conference was about to begin at the embassy where information would be released on aerial photos of […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] the CIA.(20) TUCETU’s roots lie in the Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding (LCTU), set up in 1976 by the late Joe Godson, labour attaché at the US embassy and highly active in Labour politics from the Gaitskell period onwards. As TUCETU put it, LCTU was formed ‘in order to develop a better understanding of […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] …. when he heard that Big Minh and his group were planning to assassinate Diem, he wanted to make a direct contact. He was hesitant about the embassy in Saigon because he could not trust his people there. So he called on Torby who … told Diem “They’re going to kill you. You’ve got […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] chief economist with the American bankers, Goldman Sachs.(50) Jonathan Powell, Blair’s foreign policy advisor, is a former foreign office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.(51) Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).(52) Patrician Hewitt works for the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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…… […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] Minister), with the aim – among others – of saving the CIA listening posts on the Soviet/Iranian border at Capkan and Behshahr. The capture of the American Embassy in November 1979 wrecked these plans however, and it was only after a year that the CIA managed to re-establish contacts with an old friend, former […]
Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££
[…] and his research is continuing. He has recently received 2,500 pages of declassified material on Project Pandora, the US investigation of the Soviet irradiation of the US embassy in Moscow, aspects of which, when digested, will no doubt appear in these columns. Meanwhile here is another example of the duplicity of the British state. […]