Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] world of the MSM, the announcement that Evan Davis is to take over from Jeremy Paxman as Newsnight presenter was probably rather welcome in the US London embassy. For the 52-year-old who is stepping into the shoes of the now-retired BBC TV veteran also followed him into membership of the British American Project (BAP), […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] new documents were made public, with more to come, settled any debate about whose information was reliable. Emphasise apparent. The caller said something like ‘Ring the American embassy in London for some big news’, not ‘JFK’s going to be killed in Dallas.’ See . 35 36 10 perhaps not – that these confessions have […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to believe happened.’ ‘I was suddenly accused of issuing visas in return for sex, stealing money from the post account, of being an alcoholic, of driving an embassy vehicle down a flight of stairs, which is extraordinary because I can’t drive. I’ve never driven in my life. I don’t have a driving license. My […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was suddenly transformed from the theoretical to the pragmatic. Johnson: ‘Or some of our folks, including some of the old China Lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying, “Please notify the President that if he’ll hold out till November the 2nd they could get a better deal. And they oughtn’t to be […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Research Department (IRD); IRD’s media assets; anti-communist groups in the labour movement, most obviously Common Cause and its offshoot, Industrial Research and Information Services (IRIS); US London embassy employees, usually labour 6 See for an account by former Special Branch officers of recruiting informants among the NUM and for an account of Special Branch’s […]

view from bridge

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[…] range of symptoms up to and including brain damage, referred to by all but intelligence bureaucrats as Havana Syndrome, since the first incidents happened at the US embassy there. Re-reading some of the reporting and comment on this, two things struck me. The first was the quite extraordinary lengths to which the agencies of […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] including the Daily Mail, The Times and The Spectator. See . 27 ‘I can’t in all conscience vote for any of them’, 1 November 2019. or 28 embassy in London and its assets.29 Why has the MSM failed so completely at this? Maybe one day some of those involved at editorial level will explain […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] to the American Civil Liberties Union and Socialist Workers Party. Marlowe also travelled to Mexico on behalf of the FPCC in 1962, visited the Mexico City Cuban embassy to try and get a visa to travel to Cuba and met with Mexican communists while there.29 This political CV is strikingly similar to Oswald’s. The […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]

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