Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] a theoretical framework. He concludes: ‘With the Congress, historical context is everything. In the 1950s it was dedicated to forming alliances between the American and European Non- Communist Left in defence of cultural-intellectual values, and as ideological support for the Marshall Plan and the Atlantic alliance. The time was right, in other words, for […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] trying to ingratiate himself with Neave in order to get to Neave’s friend Lt.Col. Brush the head of Down Orange Welfare. Neave had much better contacts on Communist infiltration in Northern Ireland than Colin Wallace such as his links, that went back to his post-war work, with the security services. Are the British (mainland) […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] this section from the memoir of senior KGB officer Oleg Kalugin, The First Chief Directorate: My 32 Years in Intelligence and Espionage Against the West: ‘In the Communist sphere outside of Europe, we [KGB) worked closest with the Cubans…….The Cubans’ ardour also spurred them to take chances that we, a conservative superpower (USSR), were […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] indefinitely, for various reasons, including: the emerging dominance of wealthy diaspora; the creeping commercial expansion of China and India; the eventual maturing of some post-Soviet and post- communist regimes; the emerging clout of some countries of the British Commonwealth; the sophistication of some organisations such as the Arab League; the expansion of the European […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] the Czarevitch. Others who supported Goleniewski’s lineage included the John Birch Society (through its journal American Opinion), the Philadelphia-based lay Catholic Order of the Carmelites (an anti- communist organisation), the conservative journalist Guy Richards, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Sovereign Order of St. John of […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££
[…] to be Regulated’, The Independent 31 July 2004, p.18 10 Established under the 1950 Internal Security Act, the SISS worked closely with the FBI to ensure that Communist Party members registered themselves with the Attorney General. It also conducted Senate hearings for 27 years to ensure that the register was kept up to date. […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] et al never produced any evidence – hence the necessity of the novel, perhaps. At the Progreso site the page ‘About us’ includes an interview with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of the People’s Power.
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon (Obituary, Guardian 31 July 1995). Journalist, author, friend of this journal. Ian Greig (Obituary Glasgow Herald 4 November 1995). Anti- communist writer and propagandist; active in the Monday Club and Foreign Affairs Research Institute. Although I am still unclear of his precise role, I think he was […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] Gangs and Counter-Gangs in 1960. (4) After Kenya, Kitson next saw active service in Malaya. He arrived in the country in January 1957, by which time the Communist insurgency had already been effectively defeated. Only a small number of isolated guerrilla bands were still at large. He regarded the army’s methods as ‘thorough rather […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] many with horrific cruelty, even by the standards of the time. He successfully avoided any post-war difficulties, eventually arriving in New York as a bona fide anti- Communist in July 1951. Here, in less than a year, he achieved the remarkable feat of becoming not only a priest in the Romanian Orthodox Church, but […]