Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, … Read more
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] on Mexico City University in the sixties. US students who played sports or hung out with Russian students were expected to report on their conversations to the Embassy where the CIA would either recruit them or warn them not to fraternise with the commies. The recruits would report on other US students who didn’t […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] height of the air war against Iraq. This factionalism may also have accounted for the CIA target set that resulted in the whoopsy-daisy destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict. Meanwhile, Mr. Hambling also asks why fuel air explosives were used in Operation Black Cat. One explanation might be that […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Later on, if he does not cooperate most fully with his debriefers and handlers, they can always threaten to return him to his country of origin or embassy and to publicize his treachery, which would have horrible consequences for him and his family. In other words, even if a defector was unwilling to lie […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] as temporary police stations. (letter in Leveller Supplement No 2, December 1984) (b) and public order Met. Police ‘exceeded their powers’ in arresting people outside South African embassy. (Times August 2) Met. Commissioner Newman said ‘prevention of public disorder was at the top of their list of priorities’, and 500 men in Police Support […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] of the Israeli government. Two months later Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the no. 2 in the Israeli embassy in London. According to the Sunday Times of 2 July 2000, Levy was ‘dazzled by Blair’s drive and religious commitment’. Two months later, the leader of […]
Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££
[…] Irwin Kimmelman 325 2700 Ron Wiss Kastners Hamdid 667 1384 Kensington Hilton 603 3355 Hans Kunz 28 Chaban 13?7H Geneva Lea – Carl Lande 751 0001 Lybia Embassy 589 5235 Locks – Tom King 203 446 8902 Lenzar – Jim Davis London Rest Topo Gigio – Piccadilly Carlos Place Fulham Road Maeco 703 524 […]
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 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] and retired diplomat, who was flown into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia on a mission to reach Tito’s partisan headquarters in 1943, and was once commercial counsellor at the British embassy in Moscow. The other is Greg Palmer, a Russian-speaking historian who owns Ransome’s old sailing cruiser Peter Duck and took her into Estonian and Russian waters […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Italy ’79 Committee London 1980 Ruscoe, J Italian Communist Party 1976-81, Macmillan London 1982 Terrorism, fascism, neo-fascism and state terror Dinges J. and Landau S. Assassination on Embassy Row, Writers and Readers London 1980 Herman, Edward The Real Terror Network, South End Press, Boston 1982 Kruger, Henrik The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose Books, […]
