America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] been in the recent past. The official US view on Israel after 1949, for instance, was that it was a ‘major asset’ in the Cold War. With Egypt and Syria dallying with the Soviet bloc during this period this might have had some validity. However Israel did not join or participate in any way […]

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Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] and ordered the UN peacekeeping contingent from its buffer position in the Sinai between Egyptian and Israeli forces. However, as Tel Aviv, London and Washington knew, neither Egypt – whose main combat capability was tied down in a losing war in North Yemen – nor the hapless Syrians were in any position to pose […]

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Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] post-war period prior to the mid-1970s involve cooperation between Nazi veterans and/or neo fascists and particular Arab nationalist regimes, most notably those of Jamal ‘Abd al-Nasir in Egypt and Mu’ammar al-Qadhadafi in Libya, or factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). However in these cases, particularly those of the aforementioned regimes, it is quite […]

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Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] essential prism through which to view this debacle? One is struck when reading this episode that the UK political leadership could clearly have continued the fighting in Egypt for long enough to have secured complete control of the Suez Canal (another 24, maybe 36 hours) and then have told the US that they would […]

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The 1953 Coup in Iran: an Iranian insider’s view

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] cooperation between the intelligence services of the UK and USA in direct interference in the politics of that region. After their first victory in November 1952, in Egypt, the two services realised that their combined efforts would produce results: hence it was followed by the Iranian coup. Contrary to the CIA’s propaganda the Iranian […]

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Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with both the Americans and the Soviets, would have hardly have booted out a Soviet agent […]

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A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] Abadan’, Churchill explained to his Foreign Secretary, Eden, ‘none of these difficulties……..would have occurred’.(27) (The reference was to the British action at the town of Ismaila, in Egypt in January 1952. After an assault by Egyptian rebels on a British military base, Britain occupied the town of Ismaila, surrounded the police headquarters and then […]

The Department of Energy’s Guinea Pigs: a preliminary report

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] research. Although it is unclear to what use they were put, AEC documents show isotopes were sent to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Turkey, South Africa, the UK and Uraguay. In response to my inquiry, the British […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] for important data rather than attempting to acquire the data itself’. Did Guillaume in fact take any secret material?(18) Brandt returned to Bonn from a visit to Egypt on the morning of 24 April 1974 to learn that Guillaume had been arrested as a spy in the service of the GDR. Although initially there […]

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First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] CORPS 16-17 ASSISTANT MILITARY ATTACHE THE HAGUE 19-29 BELL’S UNITED ASBESTOS CO. LTD. 29-++ PRESIDENT BELL’S ASBESTOS AND ENGINEERING LTD. BIDDLE, ROBIN 1950s ARMY SERVICE FIELD SECURITY EGYPT, GERMANY 55-59 POLITICAL OFFICER ADEN PROTECTORATE -65 HAYTER SCHOLARSHIP -80 SEC./LIBRARIAN MIDDLE EAST CENTRE CAMB. BINGHAM, MAJ. SEYMOUR 1918 ARMY 18-33 USA -33 HOLLAND DIRECTOR BRYNEEL […]

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