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[…] government. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF events, Donoughue revealed the following. In the middle of this crisis I was privately summoned to the United States Embassy for a secret meeting with a very senior official there who said, ‘You should be aware of something, which is that parts of the Treasury are […]

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 […]

Livingstone, Zionism and the Nazis

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] hands of those eager to inflict damage by even the most outrageous smears. With the Blairites, the Labour Friends of Israel – urged on by the Israeli Embassy, where the appalling Mark Regev1 is ambassador – and more or less the entire British media waiting for an opportunity to attack, Livingstone unwittingly but still […]

The construction industry blacklist: how the Economic League lived on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] material posted to his home and a message left on his home answering machine insinuating an affair which was traced back to an employee of the Canadian Embassy. 23 No evidence has been offered to substantiate rumours that Kerr was a former Special Branch officer, though little is known about his past. 24 Interview […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

Reading between the lies: Edward Jay Epstein and Lee Harvey Oswald’s ‘Historic Diary’

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] stay behind the Iron Curtain during his defection from the USA between 1959 and 1962. The very text itself is suspect, containing several anachronisms (references to US embassy staff not in situ on the dates of the diary entries in question, for example) and other details that just don’t ring true at all. Perhaps […]

View from 92

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[…] US diplomatic personnel being assaulted by some kind of Russian beam weapon – presumably, but not definitively, microwave based. (The first such reports came from the US embassy in Havana.) The first item was a story which came out of the US attack on Venezuela. A member of the Venezuelan armed forces is reported […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] news originally surfaced in the Vichy press but was then confirmed by King Carol of Romania, who was resident in Seville at the time, via the British Embassy in Lisbon. This tale was picked up, either from Foreign Office contacts or independent sources by the 17 well-informed Labour MP Sidney Silverman,42 who claimed in […]

Still thinking about Dallas

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] to the American Civil Liberties Union and Socialist Workers Party. Marlowe also travelled to Mexico on behalf of the FPCC in 1962, visited the Mexico City Cuban embassy to try and get a visa to travel to Cuba and met with Mexican communists while there.29 This political CV is strikingly similar to Oswald’s. The […]

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