Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] Ltd and demonstrated its link with drugs money launderer Patrick Diamond, which had been explained to him by John Huber, Drug Enforcement Administration man at the U.S. embassy in London. 20 June Murrin published a press release entitled ‘Royal Lies’, releasing excerpts from many of the Oyston flotation proposal documents stolen from Oystons the […]

The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?’ (19) John Brady Kiesling, Political Counsellor in U.S. Embassy in Athens, resigned at the end of February, writing: ‘….twenty years with the State Department…. we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic […]

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The KGB Lawsuits

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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 […]

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Terrorism: how the West can win

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] be a shift to a “terror army”?) Claire Sterling, attempting to get round one of the real problems for her Bulgarians-shot-the-Pope thesis, namely: why, if the Bulgarian embassy officials were guilty, did they stay in Rome? points out that: “One did not leave until 15 months after the Pope was shot … Another … […]

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Fifth Column: The decadence of our political system

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] but because he feared the cost to his management of the Party. A real conspiracy theorist (which I am not) would see the hand of the US Embassy in the Labour Party’s Partnership in Power reforms (4) because the State Department was the ultimate beneficiary. Similarly, the necessary market revolution against the sclerotic corporatism […]

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Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] distributor. Floridia cited Stark’s frequent prison visits from Wendy M. Hansen at the U.S. consulate in Florence, ‘Dear Ron’ letters from Charles C. Adams at the U.S. embassy in London, addressed to Stark’s LSD lab in Brussels (these were seized by Italian police after his arrest), and his links with Philip B. Taylor III […]

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The Gospel according to Saint Jim

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 […]

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After Kelly: ‘After Dark’, David Kelly and lessons learned

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] cousin Iyad Allawi. Allawi, known as ‘Sadaam Lite’, is a British-trained neurosurgeon who is believed to have headed the European division of the Mukhabarat from the Iraqi embassy in London. Despite being accused of having tortured and killed, Allawi still ended up as the coalition’s interim Prime Minister of Iraq in the run up […]

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The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] League was set up in London and an Anglo-American Committee in New York. In England, “so many Britons sought to enlist in the American forces that the embassy in London had to publicise a statement discouraging applications.” (17) This outburst of Anglo-Saxonism may be considered as the culmination of an effort of many years […]

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