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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Newsinger on KItson

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[…] boost to support for the IRA in Northern Ireland. It is worth remembering that on 2 February a large crowd of protesters actually burned down the British Embassy in Dublin in retaliation. How does Kitson deal with this somewhat crucial episode? He tells his readers that he had agreed to send Paras under his […]

ViewfromtheBridge

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[…] relations at the time was facilitated by MI5. For not only did they have the Party bugged and penetrated, they knew about the money from the Soviet embassy which was keeping it going.22 I have suggested before in these columns that had MI5 exposed the Soviet funding after the Red Army rolled its tanks […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] right. ‘An interview in 1988 given by a former Pakistani military official further corroborates this. According to this Pakistani military official, eight months before the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad had asked Pakistani military officials to “to recommend a rebel organization that would make the best use of U.S. aid.”’

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby-JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the […]

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