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’ […]

Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

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 […]

Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock […]

The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)

[PDF file]: […] Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘ communist threat’ in Lobster 24; some sections on the Gaitskellites and the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Smear!; and a little piece on the post WW1 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986)

[PDF file]: […] Department (IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti- Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] month later, on 14 September, the Warren Commission stated that Oswald and his unit sailed into the South China Sea during a major crisis between Taiwan and Communist China. On 30 September, his unit set up base at P’ing-tung in North Taiwan. The unit then returned to Atsugi on 5 October. Oswald next spent […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] United Nations action. The Koreans living in the North, separated by US fiat from the rest of their country, including families, were decreed en masse to be communist non-persons and white Americans had been urged to fanatical hatred of communists, especially as non-Americans, the extermination of which became a self-evident and holy cause. Fantasy […]

Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] in the murder vehicle at the time and place of the killing. But he was not arrested or brought to trial and shortly after a leading anti- Communist informant for the FBI claimed to have learnt that the Communist Party was In fact three assassins were apprehended and served token sentences. The ringleader, Michael […]

SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by many in the US as a Communist sympathiser – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] suspect. 13 4 the Monday Club’s Journal, Monday World. As head of the British League for European Freedom Martin became the U.K. delegate to the World Anti Communist League (WACL). The parallels between the anti-semitic/neo-fascist activities in the U.K. and those in Australia are strikingly demonstrated in Dennis Freney’s Nazis Out of Uniform: Dangers […]

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