Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] war for both NATO intelligence and the BND, where he specialized in acquiring information on the left under journalistic cover.(107) With the help of the communist Chinese embassy in Berne, he persuaded Bulliard to hire him and other AP personnel as correspondents for the PCS/MI- paper, L’Etincelle. (108) Armed with these credentials, Leroy and […]
Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££
[…] though this is not a subject I am interested in, this looks very impressive and is thoroughly documented. September 1988 includes (using IFA’s headlines) Jerusalem Christian ’ embassy’ aids Contras Israeli Help on New South African Aircraft Pentagon Sleaze Pipeline Sleaze etc etc. It’s your basic parapolitics methodology (read and collate a hell of […]
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] Israeli Lobby (Chicago: Lawrence Hill and Co., 1985): ‘During the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980, columnist Jack Anderson quoted “US intelligence reports”, actually supplied by the Israeli embassy by way of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that the PLO had mined the embassy to frustrate any rescue attempt by the United States. The […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
JFK: The two Oswalds Anthony Frewin Those of you who missed the two articles by John Armstrong on ‘the two Oswalds’ in recent issues of Probe magazine, don’t despair: Armstrong has rewritten and considerably enlarged them as a two volume DTP work. Armstrong’s finding may be the most significant research breakthrough in years. But we’re […]
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 – […]
