The Ultranationalist Right in Turkey and the Attempted Assassination of Pope John Paul II

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Later on, if he does not cooperate most fully with his debriefers and handlers, they can always threaten to return him to his country of origin or embassy and to publicize his treachery, which would have horrible consequences for him and his family. In other words, even if a defector was unwilling to lie […]

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The International Centre of Free Trade Unionists in Exile

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, … Read more

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Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Italy ’79 Committee London 1980 Ruscoe, J Italian Communist Party 1976-81, Macmillan London 1982 Terrorism, fascism, neo-fascism and state terror Dinges J. and Landau S. Assassination on Embassy Row, Writers and Readers London 1980 Herman, Edward The Real Terror Network, South End Press, Boston 1982 Kruger, Henrik The Great Heroin Coup, Black Rose Books, […]

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Getting it right: the security agencies in modern society

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] timid and ignorant, would fall for a proposal as preposterous as that one. MI5 hardly paused for breath after losing the KGB ‘threat’ contained in the Soviet Embassy and its Trade Mission, before acquiring the domestic terrorism franchise from the Met Special Branch and beginning the process of hyping up the animal rights and […]

Out of the blue and into the black

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Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] Henry McDonald accept this view but the empirical evidence says otherwise. A former UVF commander who conceived a plan in the early 1970s to bomb the US embassy in Dublin, which was never executed and abandoned by the Army Council, has privately told this writer that they had completely lost control of the UVF […]

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Feedback

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] height of the air war against Iraq. This factionalism may also have accounted for the CIA target set that resulted in the whoopsy-daisy destruction of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during the Kosovo conflict. Meanwhile, Mr. Hambling also asks why fuel air explosives were used in Operation Black Cat. One explanation might be that […]

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Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet secret agent?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] and retired diplomat, who was flown into Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia on a mission to reach Tito’s partisan headquarters in 1943, and was once commercial counsellor at the British embassy in Moscow. The other is Greg Palmer, a Russian-speaking historian who owns Ransome’s old sailing cruiser Peter Duck and took her into Estonian and Russian waters […]

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PR, espionage and language

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] Telegraph and The Times which were sometimes used to flag things up, and which could be spotted in London, perhaps via an associate at a particular country’s embassy. Using the same fictitious APG as an example, a lobbyist could have ensured that, say, a member of the House of Lords participated in a specific […]

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Rebranding SIS

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] assistant to the then Vice President of the European Parliament’s Technological Development and Energy Committee; as well as a Japanese national who was formerly with the Japanese Embassy in Vienna as ‘special economic assistant on assignment from the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs’. (10) HMG – of which SIS forms a part – is […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] an intelligent listener for him. He told me that he thought that he, while mind-controlled, and not the Libyans, had shot WPC Yvonne Fletcher outside the Libyan Embassy. I published this in Lobster. Joe was very unhappy about this and denied telling me what he had said. Since I don’t record conversations, I had […]

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