Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
[PDF file]: […] original form or as photocopies. Then there was the issue of the chronology described in Mitrokhin’s account. According to his version, I had marched into the Soviet embassy in Rabat to offer my services, but that was untrue. Did this assertion appear in the KGB file or in Mitrokhin’s notes, or was it supposition […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] the spring and summer of 1963. Evidently the President vetted only her looks before taking her to bed. Married to a sergeant stationed at the West German embassy, Rometsch had grown up in East Germany and belonged to a Communist youth group before moving to the West with her family in 1955.48 Jack Anderson […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] in the summer, it now turns out that she went to Israel on what she called a holiday and met some Israeli ministers there without telling the embassy. When first asked about it, she said she had told the FCO – by speaking to Boris – and that is was only a couple of […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[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)
[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 62 (Winter 2011)
[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 72 (Winter 2016)
[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 […]