Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Peter Lunn, the leader of English espionage there was Womerthly (sic), and currently it is Derbyshire who works in the disguise of a secretary in the British Embassy. In the Embassy and in other English representative organizations the following have worked as Agents: McKnot (sic), Roderick Clube (He was recently expelled from Baghdad because […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] to America in 1967.(2) Scott-Smith shows that Thatcher, then a junior shadow spokesperson in the Tory Party, was talent-spotted by the State Department’s man in the London embassy who liaised with the Tory Party, and was sent on a six week freebie in 1967 c/o the State Department’s International Visitor Program. While there she […]

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Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] matriarchy that was, in turn, under the spell of a Bible-hating, charismatic sadist named Jim Jones Escorted by Richard Dwyer, Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy, Congressman Ryan and a part of his contingent visited the remote commune on the afternoon of November 17, a Friday. Though the visit was unwelcome, and […]

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9/11’s Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant

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[…] to the FBI in the United States, and the call secured his release.(5) This release enabled Ali to go on to Kenya, take pictures of the U.S.. Embassy, and deliver them to bin Laden for the Embassy bombing plot. In August 2006 there was a National Geographic Special on Ali Mohamed. We can take […]

French vendetta: from Rainbow Warrior to the Iranian hostages deal

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Revolutionnaire Libanaise (FARL), in 1984. Mouhajer’s release was ordered by Judge Gilles Boulouque, the judge who broke the Franco-Iranian diplomatic deadlock of 1987 by permitting the Iranian Embassy official (and probable SAVAMA officer) Vahid Gordji to emerge from his Embassy refuge and leave France in November. (Guardian 26 March 1988) Within a month Marchiani […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] or middleman. (88) Lockheed internal memos at the time show no reasons for the change, but a later memo reports from the Economic Counselor of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta that there were ‘some political considerations behind it’. (89) If this is true, it would suggest that in May 1965, five months before the […]

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KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] as primary research conducted by the author amongst recently released PRO files. Tyler Kent was a junior clerk – one of 200 employees – at the US Embassy in London in 1939-1940. He worked in the room coding and decoding telegrams and other traffic that passed through and emanated from the London Embassy. When […]

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The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

Since the storming of the Iranian Embassy in London on 5 May 1980, the Special Air Service (SAS) has become a cultural phenomenon as much as a military one; has become, in the words of its former Director, Peter de la Billiere, ‘a living embodiment of the individualism of the British’. Their heroic exploits […]

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Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] furthered by the provision of money from time to time).’ (6) In the mid-fifties, according to Chester Cooper, the Labour Party ‘was virtually ignored by the American Embassy during the tenure of Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich.’ But he adds a rider: ‘A few of us, however, tried to provide key Labour Party members with some […]

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Things Israeli

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

Extracts from what are claimed to be CIA analyses of Israeli intelligence services found when the US embassy in Iran was taken have been published in Imam, October 1983 through to May 1984. 17 pages in all. To this untrained eye they look genuine; ie dull enough to be genuine. There is nothing that […]

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