Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] assistant to the then Vice President of the European Parliament’s Technological Development and Energy Committee; as well as a Japanese national who was formerly with the Japanese Embassy in Vienna as ‘special economic assistant on assignment from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’. (10) HMG – of which SIS forms a part – is […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] Telegraph and The Times which were sometimes used to flag things up, and which could be spotted in London, perhaps via an associate at a particular country’s embassy. Using the same fictitious APG as an example, a lobbyist could have ensured that, say, a member of the House of Lords participated in a specific […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] an intelligent listener for him. He told me that he thought that he, while mind-controlled, and not the Libyans, had shot WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. I published this in Lobster. Joe was very unhappy about this and denied telling me what he had said. Since I don’t record conversations, I had […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] basic communications carriers’. The DIA’s follow up reports reinforced this, warning that; ‘Soviets or Czech perfection of psychotronic weapons would pose a severe threat to enemy military, embassy or security functions. The emitted energy would be silent and difficult to detect electronically. The Soviets claim to have developed effective biological energy sensors and the […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
[…] in America at the time. Adam Marris, employed at Lazards from 1929-1939, spent a short time in the Ministry of Economic Warfare in London, joined the British Embassy in Washington in 1949 as 1st Secretary, and later became Counsellor. After the war he returned to Lazards until the 1970s, and was also a director […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] programme broadcast on Channel 4. That programme included testimony from Dr Hugh Thomas on the analysis of the wound which killed Fletcher which suggested that the Libyan embassy was not the source of the shot.(5) Does the deal done with the Libyans include the rubbishing of those who never believed the Libyan story in […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] Cabinet. Then, as Thurlow puts it: ‘This resistance was overridden by the implications of the Tyler Kent affair.’ Tyler Kent was a cypher clerk in the American Embassy in London. He had been under MI5 surveillance for some 7 months during which he had made contact with members of the Right Club, the hard-core […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] the UVF, who may have been peripherally connected to Hughie Smyth’s UDF (see text), who also wanted to bomb the Catholic Seminary at Maynooth and the US Embassy in Dublin before he was interned. When UVF bombs returned to Dublin and Monaghan during the UWC Strike of 1974, in the form of car bombs, […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] no one had been expelled from the country. True, but a few days earlier Mr Guennadi Saline (codename ‘Silver’), First Secretary and Press Attache to the Soviet Embassy in Dublin, was expelled from Eire, as were Victor Lipassov and his wife Evotokia. Mrs Lipassov is believed to be a KGB agent and to have […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
In their recent history of the Information Research Department (IRD), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell’s decision to collaborate with that organisation’s anti-Communist propaganda operations. They write that ‘George Orwell’s reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 that he … Read more