Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]
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[PDF file]: […] one of Labour’s economic advisers, written by Brian Milton for the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] In this context note that that Archibald James, Conservative MP for Wellingborough 1931-1945, was a friend of R. A. Butler, and served as Honorary First Secretary, British Embassy in Madrid 1940-1941, whilst still an MP. In other words, Hoare, Butler and others had a trusted link to Madrid during a period when the chances […]
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 65 (Summer 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘the numbers employed in Soviet missions in the UK had by the mid-1960s reached record levels, and though a ceiling was imposed on the size of the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]