[…] ever close on the Godson family who have featured regularly in Lobster over the years? Father of the clan, Joe, was Hugh Gaitskell’s ally at the US embassy and in an active retirement from the diplomatic service continued to influence British politicians through his work at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. One […]
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But … Read more
[…] went in this period is not yet clear. While Martin Webster alluded in July 1984 to a projected (but unrealised) trip by Joe Pearce to the Libyan embassy for fund-raising in February 1984, he never produced any solid proof.(24) The death of WPC Yvonne Fletcher would have closed off that avenue, and what were […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the darkest corners of the US military-industrial-complex, they decide to contact the KGB?)The KGB officer there, Kostikov – yes, the man who met Oswald in the Soviet embassy – said that it would not be possible to give Garrison’s inquiry the KGB file on Oswald but hinted that something might turn up from an […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 … […]
