Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[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)
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[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 72 (Winter 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[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 […]