The Scottish National Party and the American State

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] while MSP Ross Thomson declared the trip in his House of Commons register (he became an MP in 2017). All three attributed the gratuity to the US Embassy without reference to the IVLP. Grady and Crawley are members of the British American Parliamentary Group (BAPG). Are we to understand that the BAPG are exempt […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was suddenly transformed from the theoretical to the pragmatic. Johnson: ‘Or some of our folks, including some of the old China Lobby, are going to the Vietnamese embassy and saying, “Please notify the President that if he’ll hold out till November the 2nd they could get a better deal. And they oughtn’t to be […]

view from 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] including the Daily Mail, The Times and The Spectator. See . 27 ‘I can’t in all conscience vote for any of them’, 1 November 2019. or 28 embassy in London and its assets.29 Why has the MSM failed so completely at this? Maybe one day some of those involved at editorial level will explain […]

Still thinking about Dallas

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[…] 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 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] with Lobster 11 (1986). 27 8 IRD. After the election of Allende, British Foreign Secretary Alec Douglas-Home told IRD specialist A. S. Dyer (based at the British Embassy in Santiago) to cooperate with FWF there, indicating concern at the top of the British government about the turn events had taken in Chile. FWF was […]

South of the Border

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] recently, a story from the Guardian on the family of one Charles Thomas. He was a CIA officer in the 1960s and was stationed at the U.S. embassy in Mexico City. Essentially, the adult children of the late Mr Thomas are hoping that President Trump will release documents produced by the Mexico City CIA […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of ‘directed energy’ is also endorsed by a group of scientists who concluded that microwaves was the most plausible explanation The mystery ailment that has afflicted U.S. embassy staff and CIA officers off and on over the last four years in Cuba, China, Russia and other countries appears to have been caused by high-power […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] any financial institution, the management board of VTB includes a range of personalities but in prominent positions are Andrei Kostin, formerly in ‘diplomatic service’ at the USSR embassy in London 1985-1990, during which time he presumably knew Alexander Lebedev the current proprietor of The Evening Standard and The Independent, Vasily Titor, who ‘worked in […]

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