Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King ‘coup’ of May 1968

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] UK. Following the shock of the Tet offensive in Vietnam, when Viet Cong forces had for a time succeeded in reaching Saigon and even penetrating the US Embassy compound, pressure on the dollar had mounted. By early March it was being sold in favour of gold at the price of $1 = 35oz, which […]

Terrorism: how the West can win

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] be a shift to a “terror army”?) Claire Sterling, attempting to get round one of the real problems for her Bulgarians-shot-the-Pope thesis, namely: why, if the Bulgarian embassy officials were guilty, did they stay in Rome? points out that: “One did not leave until 15 months after the Pope was shot … Another … […]

Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] are we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?'(19) John Brady Kiesling, Political Counsellor in U.S. Embassy in Athens, resigned at the end of February, writing: ‘….twenty years with the State Department…. we have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such systematic […]

The Gospel according to Saint Jim

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] of the latter for assassinating Kennedy even though no evidence had been collected to support the charge? (9) Why the charade of Oswald’s visit to the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City, which we now know to have been made by a double? (10) Why did CIA Director Richard Helms demonstrate such a close interest […]

The meaning of the QinetiQ scandal

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] of Sese Mobuto to power. He was expelled from Zanzibar for subversive activities in 1965 and transferred to Brazil as counsellor for political affairs at the US embassy. Here, he helped consolidate in power the military dictatorship that, with US encouragement, had seized control in 1964. This regime ruled by the most brutal methods, […]

The KGB Lawsuits

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] warriors who gathered round the broken down old movie actor in Washington. There it was, in the middle of Washington, full of lefties, talking openly with Soviet embassy personnel, supporting Cuba and the Sandinistas, quite unimpressed by the anti-Soviet propaganda offensive of the late 1970s and 80s. The Crozier research team showed, without great […]

Our Searchlight problem

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] who had infiltrated the Palestinians and some left groups. This man ran into him time and time again, including once at a function organised by the Cuban embassy in London. Kelly was seen on Irish Rights marches the night the Ulster office was attacked, medical aid for Vietnam, Portugese meetings and even a demo […]

Pipe Dreams: the CIA, Drugs, and the Media

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] distributor. Floridia cited Stark’s frequent prison visits from Wendy M. Hansen at the U.S. consulate in Florence, ‘Dear Ron’ letters from Charles C. Adams at the U.S. embassy in London, addressed to Stark’s LSD lab in Brussels (these were seized by Italian police after his arrest), and his links with Philip B. Taylor III […]

The Rhodes-Milner Group

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] League was set up in London and an Anglo-American Committee in New York. In England, “so many Britons sought to enlist in the American forces that the embassy in London had to publicise a statement discouraging applications.”(17) This outburst of Anglo-Saxonism may be considered as the culmination of an effort of many years on […]

Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] this, the single most important claim in the entire book. David Attlee Phillips admits, for the first time, that Lee Harvey Oswald did not visit the Soviet embassy in Mexico City in 1963. If that means nothing to you, then the book will probably mean nothing. At the heart of Lane’s case was Hunt’s […]

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