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
This is from No 3 volume 7, 1988 of Geheim, the German member of the international brotherhood of parapolitics mags (of which Lobster is apparently the smallest, poorest and least frequent). The good news for those of us too lazy to learn anything but English is that Geheim is going to produce an English- language […]
[…] No 10. This will come as small surprise to Lobster readers who will recall that Levy met Blair in 1994 through the good offices of the Israeli embassy in London. Levy was recently quoted by the Jewish Chronicle as saying: ‘I have been with him since he became leader and I will be at […]
[…] – and for them that means the royals.’ (Interview with Richard Tomlinson. Available at: http://www.anaserve.com/~wethepeople/tomlin2.html) One account says that six MI6 agents were stationed in the British Embassy in Paris on the weekend of the crash. At least one officer was detailed to shadow Diana and Dodi after their arrival from Sardinia (Stuart Qualtrough […]
Last year, in the search for independent corroboration of some of Colin Wallace’s story, I talked to a number of ‘Irish hands’, journalists who had been in Northern Ireland while Wallace was working there. One was Kevin Dowling, the Sunday Mirror correspondent there from 1970-74. Dowling was reluctant to talk much about that period of … Read more
[…] Gaitskell’s closest ally in the trade unions. When Watson travelled down to London he didn’t stay in a hotel; he stayed in a room at the American Embassy. Had this been known at the time the entire history of the British Labour Party in the 1960s might have been different. This is a very […]
[…] On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. Crozier had been told of their role as ‘confidential contacts’ by a ‘senior KGB defector in London’. That can only have been […]
[PDF file]: […] see Peter Weiler, chapter 1. 18 6 loyally to keep an agreement. 19 In 1948, a member of the U.S. State Department, Third Secretary at the London Embassy, Herbert E. Weiner, reported from London on ‘Attitude of Trades Union Congress Towards World Federation of Trade Unions and American International Trade Union Leaders’, and wrote: […]
[PDF file]: […] the Warren Commission, that refers to an Associated Press (AP) news report on the interview Fidel Castro gave to the AP reporter Daniel Harker at the Brazilian Embassy in Havana on 7 September 1963. Picking up on the AP wire feed, the New Orleans newspaper The Times-Picayune ran a page 7 story, ‘Castro Blasts […]
[PDF file]: […] imagine just how much it really is!’ British dominance A reflection of the British dominance of the PMC industry is that the website for the United States Embassy in Baghdad provides a list of ten security companies working in country, half of which are UK-based or were established by UK persons.1 0 At the […]
