Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] in English and Italian. He came out of retirement recently, becoming a partner in the prestigious London law-firm, Gordon Dadd, situated in Grosvenor Square opposite the American Embassy. Any lawyer may find himself embarrassed by a client, but David Mills’ list of embarrassments is long. It begins with the Ecclestone affair in which Bernie […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] Stoke, is reputed to have said of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, ‘What’s all this fuss about the police woman who was shot outside the Libyan embassy? We should not shed any tears over the death of an agent of the Thatcher regime.’ (50) His views weren’t universally shared, and by October 1985 […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] Darat, 1982); translated by Robert Cribb, in Robert Cribb (ed.), The Indonesian Killings, p. 164. Sarwo Edhie had been a CIA contact while serving at the Indonesian Embassy in Australia (Pacific, May/June 1968). Pipit Rochijat, ‘Am I PKI or NON-PKI?’ Indonesia, 40 (October 1985), pp. 43-44. Cribb (ed.), The Indonesian Killings, p. 15. See […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] (4) They already have the support of Senator Sam Nunn, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee. According to Janet Morris, the military attache at the Russian Embassy has contacted USGSC about the possibility of converting military hardware to a non-lethal capability. In 1991 Janet Morris issued a number of papers giving more detailed […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
[…] Ltd and demonstrated its link with drugs money launderer Patrick Diamond, which had been explained to him by John Huber, Drug Enforcement Administration man at the U.S. embassy in London. 20 June Murrin published a press release entitled ‘Royal Lies’, releasing excerpts from many of the Oyston flotation proposal documents stolen from Oystons the […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] UK. Following the shock of the Tet offensive in Vietnam, when Viet Cong forces had for a time succeeded in reaching Saigon and even penetrating the US Embassy compound, pressure on the dollar had mounted. By early March it was being sold in favour of gold at the price of $1 = 35oz, which […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] be a shift to a “terror army”?) Claire Sterling, attempting to get round one of the real problems for her Bulgarians-shot-the-Pope thesis, namely: why, if the Bulgarian embassy officials were guilty, did they stay in Rome? points out that: “One did not leave until 15 months after the Pope was shot … Another … […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] are we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?'(19) John Brady Kiesling, Political Counsellor in U.S. Embassy in Athens, resigned at the end of February, writing: ‘….twenty years with the State Department…. we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] of the latter for assassinating Kennedy even though no evidence had been collected to support the charge? (9) Why the charade of Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, which we now know to have been made by a double? (10) Why did CIA Director Richard Helms demonstrate such a close interest […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]