Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] her simple-minded views made a good impression on the gathering may tell us a lot about those present; but she had already been spotted by the US embassy in London and had been given an extensive American tour in 1967 at US expense.1 If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] was my task to restore it. And I made a step towards the goal. It was dictated by common sense. Of course, I could complain to our embassy about missing license, refer to the law… ‘21 A Kyrgyz court jailed Maksim Bakiyev in his absence in March 2013 to life imprisonment for complicity in […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] for alleged anti-semitism.68 In a previous life Smeeth worked for BICOM, the Londonbased Israel lobby organisation, and was named as a ‘strictly protect’ source in a US embassy cable revealed by Wikileaks.69 Both Aaronovitch and Smeeth have been frequent contributors to the Jewish Chronicle, a paper repeatedly found breaking defamation laws and publishing codes […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] help their war effort and the Americans were allowed to operate their ‘largest CIA station in the region’ out of Hong Kong. MI6 agents in the British Embassy in Hanoi provided intelligence reports on the effect of US bombing that were passed on to Washington. All this took place ‘below the radar of British […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] someone has to own it . . . No one is willing to own it.”’ Another forensic accountant, Thomas Creal, actually took specific cases to the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, ‘but rarely got anywhere’. As he put it: ‘The political world gets in the way’. (pp. 187-188) Why was nothing done to deal with […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
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[PDF file]: […] neo-Nazi, they fomented an investigation into me by Internal Affairs in Revenue, from which I was cleared. CSIS thought I was funneling money from the South African embassy to Preston Manning’s campaign against Joe Clark. Here, Preston Manning was investigated. This story is told as a first/second-person narrative in chronological time with flashbacks recounting […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] end of the market.1 0 Since then he has continued to amuse and bemuse in equal measure with his antics. Convicted of ‘demanding $250,000’ from the Nicaraguan embassy in London in return for information he claimed to hold regarding ‘A contract 8 See the archived UPI report ‘Seven British mercenaries, released unexpectedly after eight […]