View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Romeo Spy by John Alexander Symonds

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] original form or as photocopies. Then there was the issue of the chronology described in Mitrokhin’s account. According to his version, I had marched into the Soviet embassy in Rabat to offer my services, but that was untrue. Did this assertion appear in the KGB file or in Mitrokhin’s notes, or was it supposition […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[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)

[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 […]

The Dr Strangeloves of the Mind

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted to see how socialism was working. While in Moscow they attended several functions at the American embassy and Dr Johnson got to know Lieut-Colonel Philip Faymonville (1888-1962) and Tyler Kent (1911-1988) who both worked there. Faymonville was the first US military attaché to […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[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 […]

Garrick part 2

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Signs of the times

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from a Soviet embassy official – since the late 1940s. The Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 saw the CPGB’s membership drop by between a quarter and a third.15 Had […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] boost to support for the IRA in Northern Ireland. It is worth remembering that three days later 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 […]

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