View from the Bridge

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[…] not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. *new* ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[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 […]

In the Thick of It: The private diaries of a minister Alan Duncan

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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 […]

Garrick part 2

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[…] videos published on 1 August he referred to himself as a journalist, for the first and last time. He had also been in contact with the US Embassy in Kyiv, but said he had only been offered ‘empty bromides’. This lack of diplomatic intervention means that the US Department of State had refused to […]

The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War by Craig Whitlock

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[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 […]

View from the 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 […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[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 […]

GArrick Kill chain 1 -7 pix copy 4

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[…] of the SBU headquarters for the use of CIA employees. Nalyvaichenko was alleged to have begun work for the CIA during a diplomatic posting to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. The source for these assertions had been SBU chief during the Yanukovich presidency, and his remarks were made to Russian media in 2014, […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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 […]

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