[…] an intelligent listener for him. He told me that he thought that he, while mind-controlled, and not the Libyans, had shot WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. I published this in Lobster. Joe was very unhappy about this and denied telling me what he had said. Since I don’t record conversations, I had […]
[…] basic communications carriers’. The DIA’s follow up reports reinforced this, warning that; ‘Soviets or Czech perfection of psychotronic weapons would pose a severe threat to enemy military, embassy or security functions. The emitted energy would be silent and difficult to detect electronically. The Soviets claim to have developed effective biological energy sensors and the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] – 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Gaitskell’s closest ally in the trade unions. When Watson travelled down to London he didn’t stay in a hotel; he stayed in a room at the American Embassy. Had this been known at the time the entire history of the British Labour Party in the 1960s might have been different. This is a very […]
[…] On p. 115 he named Labour MPs or former MPs Stan Newens, Jo Richardson, Joan Lestor, Frank Allaun and Joan Maynard as ‘confidential contacts’ of the Soviet embassy and ‘fellow travelling MPs’. Crozier had been told of their role as ‘confidential contacts’ by a ‘senior KGB defector in London’. That can only have been […]
