Enduring Freedom

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] attack, Gerecht pointed out the reluctance of the CIA to conduct operations under ‘non-official cover’, their refusal to engage in local events and culture beyond the business/ embassy circuit and the ‘total absence of staff trained in local languages’ – a cultural and operational nightmare that conjures up images of men in black suits […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us that everyone going in and out of the Embassy […]

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The view from the bridge. Hidden Agendas. Jack Hill. Ghandi. Sinn Fein. Oswald

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] less than 24 hours after the shooting – LBJ and Hoover had this curious exchange. LBJ: Have you established any more about the visit to the Soviet embassy in Mexico in September? (emphasis added). Hoover: No, that’s one angle that’s very confusing, for this reason – we have up here the tape and the […]

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A note on the British deployment of nuclear weapons in crises – with particular reference to the Falklands and Gulf Wars and the purchase of Trident

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] civil servant and I am aware of other sources. Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman was informed of highly secret signals exchanged between London and the British Embassy in Washington concerning the deployment. He and John Rentoul published this information as part of the ‘Belgrano Papers’ issue of the magazine shortly after Clive Ponting […]

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Secrets from Germany

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] the Nesar Hindawi case as a Mossad operation designed to disrupt Syria’s relations with Europe. He points out that Hindawi’s father, a long-time employee of the Jordanian Embassy in London, was sentenced to death in absentia by the Jordanians for being a Mossad agent, and that Nesar’s brother Hasi, arrested after the Berlin night-club […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] the Israeli Lobby (Lawrence Hill & Co 1986): ‘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 […]

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Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££

[…] adds another. He cites CBS news as having identified 11 CIA agents as being present in Fiji at the time of the coup. Evidence for the US embassy in Suva having advance knowledge of the coup is that riot shutters went up at the windows about half an hour before the coup took place.” […]

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Advertising, Iraq and espionage

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Knightley wrote: ‘As an Ambassador in Ankara once said to me, “I’m here to foster good relations between Britain and Turkey and I have to share my embassy with British spies who spend their time trying to persuade Turkish citizens to be traitors. Is it any wonder I would like to see the back […]

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Crozier country: Free Agent: the unseen war 1941-1991

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] in Parliament. Their status, according to a major Soviet defector with whom I discussed the matter some years later, was that of “confidential contacts” of the Soviet embassy. One or two dealt directly with the Soviet International Department. They exerted a covert but at times decisive influence on Party policy’ (p. 274, emphasis added). […]

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Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened?

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] the only one that passed between Churchill and Roosevelt that day. Sometime later on 26 November, Churchill’s private Secretary Anthony Bevoir sent by hand to the American Embassy a second message to be transmitted to Roosevelt, accompanied by a note ‘I enclose a telegram from the former naval Person to the President for dispatch […]

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