Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

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 […]

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The Libyans and the death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher

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 […]

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Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

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 […]

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Parallel development: the Workers Party and the Progressive Unionist Party in Northern Ireland

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, […]

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Kincoragate: More Bodies

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 […]

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George Orwell and the IRD

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

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Geheim – CIA in England

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

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 […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] 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 […]

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PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

On the 12th February 1967, Rosemary James of the New Orleans States-Item newspaper discovered that Jim Garrison, District Attorney of New Orleans, had spent more than $8,000 on his own investigation of the assassination of John Kennedy. (The story appeared on the front page on February 20th.) Two weeks later the DA’s office announced the … Read more

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The thirteenth pillar – the death of Di reconsidered

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] – 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 […]

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