Official: CIA does mean Cocaine Importing Agency after all

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘ communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?

…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] were running students who pretended to be left-wing to attract recruiters – and presumably without success, since not a whisper of this has hitherto appeared. No more communist threat? If the MI5 brochure offers a very thing version of the organisation’s history, it does answer the question, ‘How have they responded to the end […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] by the right-wing pressure organisation People Against Marxism. Unlike the overtly Socialist British Broadcasting Corporation and Independent Broadcasting Authority, our broadcasts are free from the influence of Communist and Socialist Trade Union editorial modification. Our fight is a fight against Socialist advancement. Never before have the British people had to fight as hard as […]

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

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] selective quotations – to show that the big bogey figure of 1939/45 was Winston Churchill….duping Roosevelt….duping Stalin…….pointlessly intransigent toward Hitler etc. Kilzer’s theory that Bormann was a Communist agent has actually been around since the early 1950s. (2) No evidence has ever been produced to substantiate this view. His book is basically a study […]

Searchlight again

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] by saying that Gerry had paid this man to attend a LaRouche gathering to gain information on the organisation. Searchlight actually sent somebody to a World Anto Communist League conference abroad. No attempt was made to kill anyone and the conference had no connection with LaRouche. It says something about the low standard of […]

Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] (see flag “F”) would tend to support only part of such a claim. There are also a number of inconsistencies: McGrath would appear to be strongly anti- communist and anti-UVF and this conflicts with the document’s views on links with Tommy Herron, Ernie ‘Duke’ Elliot, ‘The Ulster Citizens Army” etc. Various public and political […]

The 1975 Referendum on Europe

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] had learned the Soviet Unions had plans to invade Western Europe and these would be carried out once the trade unions in Western Europe led by a Communist Fifth Column had fomented widespread strikes to prevent the invasion being resisted.’ Some years ago Body made claims about the CIA involvement in the campaign but, […]

From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] postwar policies of the Soviet Union and the United States than most Americans are willing recognise.’ (p.21) ‘At about the same time in February 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was carrying out a coup d’état in Prague, rightwing forces in the southern half of divided Korea, then under the control of the […]

Clinton and Quigley: a strange tale from the U.S. elite

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] they were the Round Table. The ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (22) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the […]

Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] end of them Olds’ reputation had been roundly trashed in a McCarthy-style personality assassination. Olds’ desire to see ‘social responsibility’ ahead of profit made him a ‘ communist’. His appointment was rejected, much to the delight of the oil and gas lobby, cementing Johnson’s position as their chief mouthpiece in the legislature. Following Olds’ […]

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