The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] as dangerous as the NKVD material on the mass murder of Polish POWs in the Katyn Forest, or the disappearance of Raoul Wallenberg. For the FBI and CIA it would be like records of conspiracies leading up to the assassination of JFK. John Costello, backed by a New York budget, was first into the […]

Parish Notices

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] getting old and jaded? Yes: but there is something else here. The US State Department counts for little. It was by-passed in the 1950s by the paramilitary (CIA) and the military (Pentagon). The US State Department exists as a kind of cover story for America’s military power; indeed its subsidiary status is shown by […]

Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals by John Rodden

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: Of G-Men and Eggheads: The FBI and the New York intellectuals John Rodden Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2017
 John Rodden is one of the foremost authorities on both George Orwell and the New York intellectuals, most particularly Irving Howe. He is the author and editor of a number of books on Orwell, and his […]

Ukrainian Psyops

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about the […]

The long goodbye? Taking on the consultants

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] the fine. This is where the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence […]

Consultants Challen

Lobster Issue

[…] the fine. This is where the revolving door comes in handy. A notable past Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton was James Woolsey, former director of the CIA and cheerleader for the Iraq war – which, incidentally, became one of the most rewarding boondoggles of the 21st Century.46 Along with the intelligence community, defence […]

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, […]

Ukrainian psyops

Lobster Issue

[…] existed, the source for the information in it would have been someone fairly important in Ukraine – probably Valentyn Nalyvaichenko himself, double-sourcing his own story via the CIA and thus covertly providing the US congressmen with what appeared to be domestic corroboration. A Russian presidential spokesman clearly had suspicions along similar lines about the […]

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