Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] the only one that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt that day. Sometime later on 26 November, Churchill’s private Secretary Anthony Bevoir sent by hand to the American Embassy a second message to be transmitted to Roosevelt, accompanied by a note ‘I enclose a telegram from the former naval Person to the President for dispatch […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] Knightley wrote: ‘As an Ambassador in Ankara once said to me, “I’m here to foster good relations between Britain and Turkey and I have to share my embassy with British spies who spend their time trying to persuade Turkish citizens to be traitors. Is it any wonder I would like to see the back […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] in Baghdad to refuel. Mozafar Asslam, the Iranian Ambassador in Baghdad, under Musadegh’s orders, refused to meet the Shah at the airport. In fact none of the embassy members dared to visit him. After refuelling, the aircraft flew to Rome. The Shah spent two days at the Excelsior Hotel during which the British and […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] their research.(22) A member of The Israel Center for Social & Economic Progress (ICSEP) run by Daniel Doran (former Israeli intelligence and special consultant to the US Embassy in Tel Aviv). The US ICSEP board includes Irving Kristol, while the UK ICSEP has Stanley Kalms (Conservative Party Treasurer), Lord Harris (IEA), Lord Young (BT, […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] that facilities at the company were being used in the manufacture of centrifuge components and for the training of Libyan scientists. Amin’s Custom’s contact at the British embassy was one Malcolm Nesbit. Upon arrival in Dubai, Nesbit set up a meeting with the local MI6 station chief. At this point he received yet another […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
[…] man now working alongside – and possibly replacing in time – Alastair Campbell in running the Prime Minister’s spin machine. Blair’s chief of staff is former Washington embassy diplomat Jonathan Powell. Recruited to the BAP in 1991 along with new TUC general secretary Brendan Barber, Powell has praised the organisation for ‘taking the working […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] of the latter for assassinating Kennedy even though no evidence had been collected to support the charge? (9) Why the charade of Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, which we now know to have been made by a double? (10) Why did CIA Director Richard Helms demonstrate such a close interest […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)
[…] UK. Following the shock of the Tet offensive in Vietnam, when Viet Cong forces had for a time succeeded in reaching Saigon and even penetrating the US Embassy compound, pressure on the dollar had mounted. By early March it was being sold in favour of gold at the price of $1 = 35oz, which […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[…] warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great […]