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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] about important allegations including the involvement of MI6 in a plot to assassinate General Gadaffi; that MI5 had prior knowledge of a plan to bomb the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994 (information that would have helped the defence of the two convicted for this, see below); and that MI5 could have prevented the […]

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How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] met the Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine army, von der Becke, an officer of German origin, and the former Argentine military attaché to Italy, Colonel Peron. The German Embassy in Buenos Aires began channelling funds to selected local newspapers. A month later von der Becke and Peron led a military coup that seized power in […]

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Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] chief economist with the American bankers, Goldman Sachs.(50) Jonathan Powell, Blair’s foreign policy advisor, is a former foreign office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.(51) Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).(52) Patrician Hewitt works for the […]

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] ON MI5 COMPUTERISATION PROJECT (N.S. 5/3/82) DAVIS, PROF. NORMAN MBE (1945) B. 16/5/13 D. 2/12/89 MERTON COLL. OXFORD -36 LECTURER SOFIA 39-46 ‘GOVERNMENT SERVICE MAINLY ABROAD’ -39 EMBASSY SOFIA SECTION D SABOTAGE AND SUBVERSION -41 MILITARY INTELLIGENCE DEPARTMENT GHQ CAIRO -45 QUEEN MARY COLL. LONDON -49 PROF. OF ENGLISH OXFORD UNI. 59-80 EMERITUS FELLOW […]

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Death of the Strong Man

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] rocked by scandals of bribes and manipulation by foreign agencies. This disquiet was reflected by the expulsion between 1982 and 1985 of 11 American ‘diplomats’ from the embassy in Delhi and the consulate in Madras. (1) With Pakistan as America’s only unquestioning ally in the region, the death of Zia alone would have enormously […]

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Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] for many years, on whom there is a substantial appendix. Sparrow, one of the earliest UK defenders of the Warren Commission, was in touch with the US Embassy at this time, talked with ‘Embassy officials’ about this subject; and heeded their advice and agreed not to debate the Warren Commission conclusions with Mark Lane […]

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Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, the Right Club and British anti-semitism 1939/1940

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Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] Kent and a small social circle.(9) In March 1940 Griffiths tells us that Wolkoff leaked the British/French plans to seize Narvik to William Joyce via the Italian Embassy in London. This is bombshell no. 2.(10) By the end of March Stokes had the support of Lord Beaverbrook and the I.L.P. for his peace plans…… […]

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Our leader

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] Huckfield. It worked. Blair was selected and duly elected in 1983. Commits to the USA His potential was spotted early on – most notably by the US Embassy. In 1986 Blair went on a month’s free tour of the US, paid for by the State Department. (2) Having been given a significant front bench […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us that everyone going in and out of the Embassy […]

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The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] less than 24 hours after the shooting – LBJ and Hoover had this curious exchange. LBJ: Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September? (emphasis added). Hoover: No, that’s one angle that’s very confusing, for this reason – we have up here the tape and the […]

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