Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

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 […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] ‘ethnics’ is non-white ones. That is because SIS have always employed the others. For example, SIS diplomat Alexis Forter, who, prior to becoming Counsellor at the British Embassy in Paris was my father’s case officer, was all ‘white ethnic’ – although he preferred the expression ‘White Russian’. He repeated it so often that eventually […]

George Korkala’s address book

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 […]

Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] timid and ignorant, would fall for a proposal as preposterous as that one. MI5 hardly paused for breath after losing the KGB ‘threat’ contained in the Soviet Embassy and its Trade Mission, before acquiring the domestic terrorism franchise from the Met Special Branch and beginning the process of hyping up the animal rights and […]

The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

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

Reading Italy

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, […]

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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 […]

Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] Henry McDonald accept this view but the empirical evidence says otherwise. A former UVF commander who conceived a plan in the early 1970s to bomb the US embassy in Dublin, which was never executed and abandoned by the Army Council, has privately told this writer that they had completely lost control of the UVF […]

Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet secret agent?

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 […]

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