British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] or not it was a Communist front! As for Spender’s involvement, he provides a convincing argument in favour of Spender knowing that Encounter was funded by the CIA. He had, after all, worked for the Political Warfare Executive during the war and was certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, […]

Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] before the police were finally able to rescue the kids. (pp. 165-166) Nance also tells us how in June 2017, Alex Jones had former US Marine and CIA officer, Robert David Steele, on his ‘Infowars’ show.3 They talked about a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars, who were being harvested for their bone […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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[…] before the police were finally able to rescue the kids. (pp. 165-166) Nance also tells us how in June 2017, Alex Jones had former US Marine and CIA officer, Robert David Steele, on his ‘Infowars’ show.3 They talked about a colony of kidnapped child slaves on Mars, who were being harvested for their bone […]

Conspiracy theory in America by Lance deHaven-Smith

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] In this book deHaven-Smith does two main things. He traces the current use of the expression ‘conspiracy theorist’ back to the notorious 1967 memo issued by the CIA to all its agents and assets, with advice on how to respond to critics of the Warren Commission’s verdict on the assassination of JFK: namely that […]

Friends of Israel

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] very visibly during Corbyn’s leadership of Discussed at or . 19 Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor disclosed in 1991 that some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA through the corrupt Bank of Commerce and Credit International, including 90 journalists, many of whom were in ‘senior positions’. 20 See ‘The British American Project for […]

Disrupt and Deny: Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy by Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: Disrupt and Deny Spies, Special Forces, and the Secret Pursuit of British Foreign Policy Rory Cormac Oxford University Press: 2018, £20.00, h/b Robin Ramsay First things first: this is very good and anyone interested in our secret services, post-WW2 British history, or British colonial history, let alone the actual subject matter implied by the title, […]

Apocryphilia

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] as communism, it appeared that Eden’s diplomacy represented a great lost opportunity. The unravelling of the French position in Vietnam and the role of the US (and CIA) in this formed the basis of the Graham Greene novel The Quiet American (1955). and (2) the announcement in July 1955 of the lowest ever unemployment […]

Friends of Israel Booth PDF

Lobster Issue

[…] very visibly during Corbyn’s leadership of Discussed at or . 19 Guardian journalist Richard Norton-Taylor disclosed in 1991 that some 500 prominent Britons were paid by the CIA through the corrupt Bank of Commerce and Credit International, including 90 journalists, many of whom were in ‘senior positions’. 20 See ‘The British American Project for […]

Articles of faith

Lobster Issue

[…] half of this nicely produced, thoroughly bound 260 page paperback: the essays on the New Statesman under Kingsley Martin; Encounter, the Congress for Cultural Freedom and the CIA; and Karl Miller and the London Review of Books. These essays are very good, very well informed and a pleasure to read (and reread). I would […]

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