Conspiracy, Conspiracy Theories and Conspiracy Research

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] – by simple causes, usually the concerted, conscious actions of small, or smallish, groups of men (almost always men). Favourites have been the Jews, Masons, and the Communist Party; with minor places for Catholics, aliens from another planet, the British Royal Family, and internationalist groupings like The Round Table, Trilateral Commission and Bilderberg Group. […]

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

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] GCHQ 1984 DESIGN ENGINEER GCHQ BLUNSON, TERRENCE IRD 50-60’S REGIONAL NEWS SERVICE MIDDLE EAST -80’S REUTERS BROOKE-BOOTH, COL. S.P. MI5 (‘ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT’, NICHOLAS KELSO 1988) 1939-45 COMMUNIST SECTION UNDER HOLLIS BROWN, ALLAN IRD 39-45 BALKANS 50’s JOURNALIST EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS -61 WORKING FOR THE NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY, GOA 60’s FORUM […]

Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] place since publication.) After their soldiering days Walker and Kitson, who have pieces published in this book, became convinced that British society was facing subversion from ‘ Communist’ activities in much the same way that Malaya (or Korea) had in the ’40s and ’50s. Walker was particularly active in 1974–1976 in manoeuvres that aimed […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] was refused a visa by the Soviet authorities. (Guardian 11 October ’89) The Jamestown Foundation, the ‘private’ CIA operation to handle Soviet-bloc defectors; see, for example, ‘ Communist turmoil brings exodus of Cold War spies’, in Guardian 9 December ’89. The late Joseph Josten. And so on. Deacon usefully reminds his reader of British […]

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] 1947, pages 1 & 5, reports of anti-Jewish riots throughout Britain.)(1) PRO records show that the Home Office regarded the NCCL in the pre-war era as a communist front. The Morris Beckman book about the 43 Group, cited by Renton, is full or errors. He cited a couple of dozen of which the most […]

Jim Jones and the Conspiracists

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)

[…] America during the early 1960s. In the course of that trip, Jones is found to have met with CIA officers (in Brazil), and to have given anti- communist speeches (in Guyana) – a peculiar stance for a self-declared leftist such as Jones. But the real reason that Dr. Moore battens me into the conspiracists’ […]

Forty Years of Legal Thuggery

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] 1958 FO 1959 TEHRAN 1963 1ST SEC FO 1968 SECONDED TO MOD 1972- 1ST SEC FCO RETIRED BAGOT, MILLICENT MI5 (W) IN PRE-WAR MI5. A VETERAN ANTI- COMMUNIST. HEAD OF E1 DIVISION DEALING WITH INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISM, 1945- BALFOUR, MAJ DAVID CBE (1960) B 20.1.03 UNIVERSITIES OF PRAGUE, SALZBURG, ROME AND ATHENS MI6 1939 KNOWN […]

Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

[…] the Third Reich. Such was the nature of its gyrations that Yockey could work both as a speech writer with a ‘considerable relationship’ to the viscerally anti- Communist Senator Joe McCarthy (and the network behind him which was seeking to invalidate the Nuremberg Trials), and, only months beforehand, as a courier for Czech intelligence. […]

007: a new theory

Lobster Issue 9 (1985)

[…] was ever off course, they assert that the crash was engineered by American agencies and foisted on the USSR as a way to discredit them, fan anti- Communist feeling and rally American opinion behind the Republican-hawk world view. In other words, “Providential?’ The first news most of us had of the crash came on […]

Scenes From an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] along the lines of sympathy to the Soviet Union or Red China. Those most hostile to Stalinism have tended to embrace Orwell, while those least hostile have tended to parrot Communist slanders from his believing the working class smelled to working for MI6. Scenes From An Afterlife is essential reading for anyone interested in Orwell.

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