Peace plotting: 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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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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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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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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Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] attack, Gerecht pointed out the reluctance of the CIA to conduct operations under ‘non-official cover’, their refusal to engage in local events and culture beyond the business/ embassy circuit and the ‘total absence of staff trained in local languages’ – a cultural and operational nightmare that conjures up images of men in black suits […]

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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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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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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] the Israeli Lobby (Lawrence Hill & Co 1986): ‘During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, columnist Jack Anderson quoted “US intelligence reports”, actually supplied by the Israeli embassy by way of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that the PLO had mined the embassy to frustrate any rescue attempt by the United States. The […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ issue of the magazine shortly after Clive Ponting […]

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Knightley wrote: ‘As an Ambassador in Ankara once said to me, “I’m here to foster good relations between Britain and Turkey and I have to share my embassy with British spies who spend their time trying to persuade Turkish citizens to be traitors. Is it any wonder I would like to see the back […]

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