Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the Coalition of the Willing Catering and Communication Corps. TUCETU The reward to Labour Party chairman John Reid was not long coming once Baghdad fell. The former Communist who turned strongly pro-American is now Robin Cook’s successor as Leader of the Commons. How pro-American is Reid? Remember that after Blair’s 1997 victory he joined […]

Heritage of Stone; JFK and JFK

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] theatre (some of the new information on this epsiode in Summers’ book is important and fascinating). All the constructed biographies of Oswald were in place – – Communist, pro-Cuba, defector to the USSR etc. — but their power and influence on events was diluted by his survival. One can only surmise at what might […]

Golitsyn

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] (a) that he has exposed some (relatively minor) Soviet operations; (b) made a series of quite bizarre sounding claims to the effect that the divisions within the Communist bloc were a device to mislead the capitalist states in the West; and (c) that the KGB had achieved high-level penetration of all the West’s intelligence […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] India (Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun) in 1992. (Thanks to MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us […]

Mind Control and the American Government

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] Project BLUEBIRD, rechristened ARTICHOKE in 1951. To establish a cover story for this research, the CIA funded a propaganda effort designed to convince the world that the Communist Bloc had devised insidious new methods to re-shape the human will; the CIA’s own efforts could therefore, if exposed, be explained as an attempt to ‘catch […]

The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] CIA cover is bad journalism’, I argued. ‘It omits this important aspect of The Paris Review – that it was part of the propaganda effort against the Communist and Soviet influence in Europe during the Cold War.’ I went on to explain what I had learned about Plimpton. There was no response. In a […]

The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] having the best of both worlds. We traced the original leftist influence to a pal of his at Cambridge when they were undergraduates. This chap was a communist sympathiser and remained in close touch with Mountbatten for many years. …He was not the only left winger engaged in work of national importance by Mountbatten. […]

US involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] former LCPA secretary, active in Fiji before coup and in breaking the trade ban in Australia afterwards. John Whitehall – Australian chief of the US-based Christian Anti- communist Crusade, who claims to have been in Fiji during the coup, and was on a lecture tour of New Zealand after it. Colin Rubinstein – right-wing […]

Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the ‘Reagan Doctrine’ of aggressively attacking the Soviet Union’s third world allies and grew into the CIA’s biggest operation. But in parallel with guerrilla assaults on pro- communist regimes, the doctrine of pre-emptive nuclear war was also a gathering force. Reagan’s ‘Star Wars’ announcement of 1983, although presented as a defensive measure, was clearly […]

Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] parties or terrorist groups are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of […]

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