Winning Hearts and Minds: British Governments, the Media and Colonial Counter-Insurgency 1944-60

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] contribution to our slowly increasing knowledge of IRD’s activities. One of the author’s major themes is IRD’s constant attempt to fit events on the ground into its Communist Conspiracy theory, regardless of the actual situation – just as they did in Northern Ireland in the 1970s. (The Information Policy Unit there looks increasingly like […]

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Wallace etc

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] foreign press with titillating stories. Sometimes, for the benefit of American correspondents, “captured documents” which they were not allowed to see confirmed that EOKA was modelled on communist lines and that an increasing number of young Communists were joining it. The official introduction of sex into the Cyprus problem was another product of this […]

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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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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Feedback

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 […]

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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’ […]

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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. […]

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Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the Hun’. The Allies were, of course, being told a different story. From 1943 onwards one of the Pope’s great fears was that there would be a Communist takeover in Italy. He relied first on the Germans to prevent this (in October 1943, the Vatican actually asked for more German police to be stationed […]

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