Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
[PDF file]: […] via a stint as a researcher at Granada TV while he searched for a new seat. Kinnock, meanwhile, prospered. With trade union connections, friends in the US embassy in London,5 and a safe seat in a ‘traditional Labour heartland’ (features Sedgemore conspicuously lacked throughout his career), Kinnock’s potential was spotted by Callaghan, and, with […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
[PDF file]: Julian Assange and the European Arrest Warrant Bernard Porter The Assange affair rumbles on. Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy, at a cost of God knows how much to the taxpayers of Ecuador, and more to those of the UK, to pay for the police stationed around it ready to whisk […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] wife, and sent back to the United States in June 1962. The Thirteenth Department also dispatched Oswald’s case officer, Valery Kostikov, as a diplomat to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, to be available for secret meetings with Oswald. At the time, Mexico was the most desirable place for contact with the Soviet Bloc’s […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] NOT RPT NOT BE ATTENDING BILDERBERG CONFERENCE.’39 A series of follow-up telegrams from Washington DC reiterated that Kissinger’s decision not to attend ‘remains unchanged’ and the US Embassy informed the Swedish Foreign Ministry and other hosts that Kissinger had ‘made other plans for the period.’40 Following a summit meeting in Moscow, Kissinger spent 9 […]