Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] I was surprised at my lack of reaction. Once upon a time I would have been excited. Now I am merely curious to see what the US embassy in London had to say about our politicians. Am I just getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] was my task to restore it. And I made a step towards the goal. It was dictated by common sense. Of course, I could complain to our embassy about missing license, refer to the law… ‘21 A Kyrgyz court jailed Maksim Bakiyev in his absence in March 2013 to life imprisonment for complicity in […]
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 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]
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 […]