Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] Germany, knew Prytz, probably as a result of his activities on behalf of Stewart Menzies, Chief of SIS. As is well known the talks were stopped by Churchill who threatened to lock up both Halifax and Butler. De Courcy himself had to lie low and found himself under suspicion again when the Hess affair […]

Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

[…] University Press, 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 […]

Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002)

[…] Clutterbuck, Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, London 1973, pp. 112-121. 9 Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, London 1971, pp. 24-25. 10 For COINTELPRO see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Boston MA, 1990. 11 Kitson, […]

Body of Secrets and Echelon

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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] their “customers”.’ (p. 427) Poor old British industry! It has to pay for this vast bureaucracy, and indeed is sometimes press-ganged into working for it (e.g. Matrix Churchill, Astra) but is not allowed to benefit from a few crumbs off the table. Doesn’t this strike one as being a little unfair? Our opponents, that […]

Historical Notes: Blair and Gladstone

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] than…..Lord Cromer. The power of this sectional interest, centred on the City of London, was not lost on some Liberals and even a few Tories like Randolph Churchill at the time, and their reading of the episode provided a foundation stone of the radical theory of imperialism developed at the turn of the century […]

Hitler’s Traitor: Martin Bormann and the Defeat of the Reich

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

Louis Kilzer Presidio Press, U.S., 2000, £18.99 (1)   Louis Kilzer has won two Pulitzer Prizes and is the chief investigative writer of the Denver Rocky Mountain News. A couple of chapters into this book it became clear why Kenneth de Courcy sold so many newsletters in the American Mid-West. A low point – or […]

Web Update

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] ‘politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students’. This collection, which will increase, includes recordings and transcripts of Lyndon Johnson, JFK, RFK, Khrushchev, Martin Luther King, Churchill, as well as 34 records in the Nixon database, including key White House recordings (the ‘smoking gun’ and ‘cancer on the presidency’ tapes). MILITARY/INTELLIGENCE Searchmil http://www.searchmil.com […]

Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] evaluate them. K.P. In my opinion, the BIS can be considered the basic force behind this psychological warfare. It is well known the British Conservative leader Winston Churchill announced his views concerning the cold war in a speech given in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, but the British SIS did not end its subversive activities […]

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] the Americans taking over the funding. Donovan had little faith in Habsburg but was willing to support Count Coudenhove-Kalargi, a rival claimant with his own Pan-Europa project. Churchill supported the latter against the advice of the Foreign Office. The idea was actually broached to Molotov who opposed it as anti-Soviet, and it was formally […]

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