Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] Men on the 6th Floor, which includes Loy Factor’s ‘confession’, as the source of a claim about the identity of the man impersonating Oswald at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City – but doesn’t mention Loy Factor around whom the book is built. On p.812 Armstrong tells us: ‘Some researchers speculate that the man […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] a conviction for Oliver North). It took the CIA 13 months longer than Ace Hayes to place an order for this database, and it took the Soviet embassy 8 months longer than the CIA. Who’s this Ace guy from Portland? (By 1994 Ace had become a member of the advisory board at Public Information […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] ever close on the Godson family who have featured regularly in Lobster over the years? Father of the clan, Joe, was Hugh Gaitskell’s ally at the US embassy and in an active retirement from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But … Read more
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] went in this period is not yet clear. While Martin Webster alluded in July 1984 to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the Libyan embassy for fund-raising in February 1984, he never produced any solid proof.(24) The death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher would have closed off that avenue, and what were […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] the darkest corners of the US military-industrial-complex, they decide to contact the KGB?)The KGB officer there, Kostikov – yes, the man who met Oswald in the Soviet embassy – said that it would not be possible to give Garrison’s inquiry the KGB file on Oswald but hinted that something might turn up from an […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] Darat, 1982); translated by Robert Cribb, in Robert Cribb (ed.), The Indonesian Killings, p. 164. Sarwo Edhie had been a CIA contact while serving at the Indonesian Embassy in Australia (Pacific, May/June 1968). Pipit Rochijat, ‘Am I PKI or NON-PKI?’ Indonesia, 40 (October 1985), pp. 43-44. Cribb (ed.), The Indonesian Killings, p. 15. See […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] in English and Italian. He came out of retirement recently, becoming a partner in the prestigious London law-firm, Gordon Dadd, situated in Grosvenor Square opposite the American Embassy. Any lawyer may find himself embarrassed by a client, but David Mills’ list of embarrassments is long. It begins with the Ecclestone affair in which Bernie […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 […]
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 […]