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... (c) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 25) June 1993 Last| Contents| Next Issue 25 Moscow Gold: 'the Communist threat' in post-war Britain Robin Ramsay Since the Berlin Wall fell the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known fronts. The only important news so far has been the confirmation that the Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world-- including the Communist Party of Great Britain. There really was 'Moscow Gold' in there ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 257 - 01 Jun 1993 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue25/lob25-03.htm
... (or falsifications) of Silvia Duran's so-called statement of November 23,1963, to the Mexican DFS (Dirección Federal de Seguridad), about her interviews of Oswald in the Cuban Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the Mexico City CIA Station's view of Oswald, from a 'phase-one' position (Oswald was part of a Cuban Communist conspiracy) to a more standard 'phase-two' position (Oswald was a lone nut). From other sources we learn that the DFS itself, as well as the CIA Station, pushed the 'conspiracy' story hard in their November 23 interview. Revisions to the Duran statement seem also designed to bring her story into line with an alleged ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 255 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue31/lob31-01.htm
... Contents Lobster 58 The miners and the secret state* Robin Ramsay In his 1987 book Spycatcher former MI5 officer Peter Wright revealed one of MI5's biggest secrets; but focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn't initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote that the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) 's 'Reuben Falber...had recently been made cashier of the Russian funds.’ Wright tells us that MI5 planned to burgle Falber's flat in search of the files detailing the payments but their plan failed – and he leaves it there. To MI5 in 1958 the proof of the 'Moscow gold' must have had something of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 180 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster58/lob58-069.pdf
... In Bevin's presentation of the case to the Cabinet on 5th January 1948 he spoke of Britain as a 'Third Force': 'It is for us, as Europeans and as a Social Democratic government, not the Americans, to give a lead in the spiritual, moral and political sphere to all democratic elements in Western Europe which are anti- communist and, at the same time, genuinely progressive and reformist, believing in freedom, planning and social justice-- what one might call the 'Third Force'.' (3) The Cabinet accepted the Mayhew-Bevin proposals for a propaganda unit to promote the 'third force'. Mayhew recognised that 'since anti- communist propaganda would be anathema ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 156 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-01.htm
... ), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell's decision to collaborate with that organisation's anti-Communist propaganda operations. They write that 'George Orwell's reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 that he had cooperated closely with the IRD's Cold Warriors, even offering his own blacklist of eighty-six Communist fellow-travellers...'(1) This echoed the newspaper coverage of the revelations which were originally sensationalised by Richard Norton-Taylor and Seumas Milne in their article, 'Orwell Offered Writers Blacklist to Anti-Soviet Propaganda Unit' which appeared in the Guardian on 11 July 1996. A much more considered treatment was to appear in the Daily Telegraph, of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 144 - 01 Dec 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue38/lob38-03.htm
... SUCCESS The CIA in Guatemala, 1954 James Lusher On 18 June 1954, following the positive outcome in Iran a year previously, backed by the President, Congress and the State Department, the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by many in the US as a Communist sympathiser – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of the US-sponsored coup d'état were deep and far reaching. For the CIA and the Eisenhower administration, 'its triumph confirmed the belief....that covert operations offered a safe, inexpensive substitute ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 115 - 06 Apr 2011 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster60/lob60-015.pdf
... , MI5 agent Don Bateman I was born in a working class area of Leeds in September 1919. My parents were Quaker-ILPers and it was natural for me to gravitate to the labour movement. In 1934 I left school and joined the South Leeds Labour Party. The Labour League of Youth of the pre-war period had been heavily infiltrated by the Communist Party, a leading light being Ted Willis- later Lord Willis. I saw much of the CP in action in Leeds and met many of their members. Harry Newton was born in 1922 and would only be 17 when the war broke out. He claimed to have joined the CP before the war but I never met him. ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 113 - 01 Dec 1994 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue28/lob28-09.htm
... We now know that the CPGB actually was being directed, to some extent, from Moscow after the war. Bob Darke was a member of the Party's National Industrial Policy Committee from the end of the war until 1951, when he left the Party. He described that committee as 'a Cominform puppet', receiving instructions, via visiting French communists, from the Cominform.(150) In the year Darke quit the Party, 1951, the CPGB published a landmark policy statement, 'The British Road to Socialism'. This announced a major shift in policy in which the British CPGB ceased to base itself on the Soviet model and would henceforth pursue a peculiarly British, 'parliamentary road ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 109 - 01 Jun 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/lobcc-09.htm
... 1990 Last| Contents| Next Issue 20 The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67 Peter Dale Scott Introduction On May 20th this year the San Francisco Examiner ran a story by Kathy Kadane which began, 'The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U. S. diplomats say.' Perhaps 5,000 names were given to the military during the massacres in 1965 which left perhaps 250,000 dead. Somehow Kadane had persuaded a senior CIA agent in Indonesia and his diplomatic boss at ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 104 - 01 Nov 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue20/lob20-01.htm
... (14) Much of this material seems to reflect the interests of extreme right-wing factions within various Western intelligence agencies, not necessarily the views of those agencies as a whole. (15) On the Eastern side, one can cite a number of official Bulgarian and Soviet publications, (16) as well as those produced by pro-Soviet Western communists, whether or nor they are actually members of official communist parties or front groups. (17) To say that all of these works seem designed mainly to exploit propaganda themes is not to say that all of the information contained in them is false, since propaganda is most effective when it judiciously mixes truth and falsehood. (18 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 104 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-11.htm
