Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] AFRICAN CAMPAIGN, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, FRANCE 1945-74 MP (CON) 1953 JT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HEAD OF COMMITTEE LOOKING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST COMMUNIST REGIMES 1954 PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS 1947-50 CHAIRMAN BRITISH EMPIRES PRODUCERS ORGANISATION 1962-64 CONSERVATIVE COMMONWEALTH COUNSELLOR DONELLY, MAJOR FRANK MI6 (B) 1946 DEPT Q […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] policy. I have been since I was in my teens, a very junior member of CND in the sixties, with parents who had been in the British Communist Party after the war. But there’s the paradox: while I was protesting about US bases in Scotland, I was sucking down huge amounts of American cultural […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££
[…] In 1985 Cathy Massiter a former MI5 employee revealed that the agency had kept files on Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt with the classifications ‘subversive’ and ‘ communist sympathiser’. Over the past decade there have been many structures put in place to ostensibly monitor the intelligence services as well as to give the public […]
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 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 45 (Summer 2003) £££
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, … Read more
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
