Bilderberg People: elite power and consensus in world affairs by Ian N. Richardson et al

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] her simple-minded views made a good impression on the gathering may tell us a lot about those present; but she had already been spotted by the US embassy in London and had been given an extensive American tour in 1967 at US expense.1 If the book’s contents are unexceptional, the interesting question is: why […]

GArrick part one trial

Lobster Issue

[…] 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, […]

The strange loves of Mariella

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 1 The late Michael Eddowes believed there was another Grimsby-JFK connection, that the famous phone call to the Cambridge Evening News advising them to phone the American embassy for some ‘big news’ shortly before JFK was assassinated, was made from there, probably by Osborne. See the present writer’s piece, ‘JFK, the FBI and the […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)

[PDF file]: […] suggests. In a 1989 seminar on the IMF incident, 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 […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] documentary for Channel 4 which seemed to show that the official version of the death of PC Yvonne Fletcher – murdered by a shot from the Libyan embassy – was false; that she was shot by a gunman in another building as part of the demonisation of Libya by American intelligence. That documentary is […]

Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] right. ‘An interview in 1988 given by a former Pakistani military official further corroborates this. According to this Pakistani military official, eight months before the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad had asked Pakistani military officials to “to recommend a rebel organization that would make the best use of U.S. aid.”’

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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