Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] to achieve his final official intelligence posting, when, after the liberation of France, and after being transferred from SOE to MI6, he was posted to the British Embassy in Paris. Ambassador Duff Cooper had requested this because he regarded Ayer as a ‘first-class political observer’. Ayer was vague as to what his specific duties […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Studies (SOAS). She was still teaching at SOAS into the late seventies, although her career started during the Second World War when she was at the British Embassy in Teheran. Although Dorril does not say so, her students included the late Alexis Forter (see below). It is a pity that Dorril did not build […]
Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££
[…] having flown ahead. One of the first people she met in London, around April 1961, was Stephen Ward, who invited her to a reception at the Soviet Embassy. Ward pestered her daily to meet the Soviet diplomat Eugene Ivanov, but she refused. She had had enough problems in New York, and a solicitor friend […]
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] photocopies of telegrams indicating that the US Ambassador to Italy had worked out a plan to link the Bulgarians to the shooting of the Pope. The US embassy says they’re fakes. It certainly sounds implausible that anything so sensitive would be transmitted by telegram. But then Reagan has appointed a lot of dummies as […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] airspace earlier in the year. A warning went out to European airports in early December, 1988, to watch out for bombs hidden in cassette recorders. The American embassy in Helsinki received a message on 5 December, 1988, that ‘within the next few weeks’ there would be an attack on a Pan-Flight from Frankfurt to […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] about important allegations including the involvement of MI6 in a plot to assassinate General Gadaffi; that MI5 had prior knowledge of a plan to bomb the Israeli Embassy in London in 1994 (information that would have helped the defence of the two convicted for this, see below); and that MI5 could have prevented the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] met the Commander-in-Chief of the Argentine army, von der Becke, an officer of German origin, and the former Argentine military attaché to Italy, Colonel Peron. The German Embassy in Buenos Aires began channelling funds to selected local newspapers. A month later von der Becke and Peron led a military coup that seized power in […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] (US) and £10 (UK) Saul Landau is one of those names on the American Left that I recognise but whose work, apart from his Assassination on Embassy Row, about the murder of Letelier 25 years ago, I don’t think I have ever read before – maybe one or two things on the Net […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] was the attempt, chronicled by Frank Snepp, to break a North Vietnamese prisoner, Nguyen Van Tai, one of the organisers of the Tet attack on the US Embassy in Saigon. As Snepp recalled, ‘he had not been treated kindly’ when first captured, but was now placed in solitary confinement in a totally white cell […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly trade in Red Mercury…’, and so forth. It was a great mish-mash of facts, factoids and rumours – […]
