Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Thatcher’s role after she became Leader of the Opposition in 1975. She was surrounded by spooks and ex-spooks who believed, or pretended to believe, in the Global Communist Conspiracy. What did she believe and do while so many of those around her were muttering that Harold Wilson was a KGB agent? This question is […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] the arms-for-hostages talks, fleshed out the alleged connection. “Drugs go to the bourgeois countries where they corrupt and where they kill, while the arms go to pro- Communist terror groups in the Third World.’ The DEA’s own deputy administrator, David Westrate, framed the ideological rationale for expanding his agency’s de facto jurisdiction when he […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] wiped out and unemployable in their fifties! William Clark I’ve noticed a number of highly placed academics who use Jacques and Hall as representations of the ‘ Communist’ approach as regards theories of the state, Patrick Dunleavy of the LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] fronted material from MI5’s F Branch. Some of its preoccupations are really quite bizarre. There is, for example, nearly a page about a sculpture of the late communist MP, Willie Gallagher. To whom could this conceivably be of interest outside Gallagher’s patch in West Fife? Information on and other copies of both British Briefing […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] Chapman Pincher subsequently stated the call was made by Victor Louis, the London Evening Standard’s Moscow correspondent; but the only evidence adduced was that Louis was a communist and therefore, one supposes, capable of anything.(5) Earlier this year my annotated examination of the JFK assassination paperwork generated by the FBI’s London office was published […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Soviet power blocs was due in part to a number of the early Zionist leaders also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] McGovern wrote of this: ‘In early 1967, CIA analysts, led by a young analyst named Sam Adams demonstrated that there were more than twice as many Vietnamese Communist forces as the US military listed on its books. General William Westmoreland’s staff had reduced the numbers for political reasons. The general was adamant, so CIA […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
[…] is impossible: events and the words of the players can be interpreted in different ways. Curtis takes as his starting point the fact that while the ‘ communist threat’ has disappeared, the actions of the US and its major flunkey, the UK, remain unchanged. In other words, whatever the diplomats at the time thought […]
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] our propaganda and study the Russian Intelligence Service (RIS) and local left activity. But Beck learns that by the 1960s RIS had long since ceased using foreign Communist Parties for espionage. In Havana he manages to identify the local KGB chief, but that’s about all, even after endless tailing. Because CIA chiefs are so […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, […]