Newsinger on Strarmer

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[…] riots, when in fact he had taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge […]

Gareth Llewellyn, CSIS and the Canadian stasi

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] neo-Nazi, they fomented an investigation into me by Internal Affairs in Revenue, from which I was cleared. CSIS thought I was funneling money from the South African embassy to Preston Manning’s campaign against Joe Clark. Here, Preston Manning was investigated. This story is told as a first/second-person narrative in chronological time with flashbacks recounting […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] In this context note that that Archibald James, Conservative MP for Wellingborough 1931-1945, was a friend of R. A. Butler, and served as Honorary First Secretary, British Embassy in Madrid 1940-1941, whilst still an MP. In other words, Hoare, Butler and others had a trusted link to Madrid during a period when the chances […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] ‘the numbers employed in Soviet missions in the UK had by the mid-1960s reached record levels, and though a ceiling was imposed on the size of the embassy in 1968 the Russians had side-stepped it by filling the Soviet Trade Delegation with intelligence officers and by making use of “working wives”.’ By 1971, MI5 […]

Gonzalo Lira and the kill chain

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 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, […]

A Diplomat’s Day by Geoffrey F. Hancock

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012) FREE

[PDF file]: […] not live up to the advertising. There is nothing about MI6’s role (if it had one). Hancock was acting ambassador during this period after most of the embassy staff were evacuated and it is that role which the book describes. There is a great deal about the day-to-day difficulties involved in maintaining the British […]

Blair and Israel

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]

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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, […]

When freemasons ruled the earth?

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] been? Possibly that one of his brothers, Johannes, was a pro-German manager of the family estates in the Sudetenland, whilst another, Gerolf, was secretary at the Japanese embassy in Prague (until 1941) and would later serve on Field Marshall Ewald von Kleist’s staff on the eastern front. In the US he established a relationship […]

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