SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] manner in which these conflicting structures contributed to Yugoslavia’s disintegration in the early nineties. He also scotches the notion, persistent on the right, that it was covert Communist influence within SOE (steered by James Klugman) that led the British to begin supporting Tito at the expense of Mihailovic: Tito was simply killing more Germans. […]

Enemies Within?

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

The Enemy Within Seamus Milne Verso, London, 1994 Enemy Within: The Rise and Fall of the British Communist Party Francis Beckett John Murray, London,1995 Seamus Milne has written a very good book, an essential book. Investigative journalism in this country is very hard to do, and Milne deserves great praise for this achievement.(1) The […]

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] suspect. In the war, he left Germany and was firstly in the Danish resistance and then the Norwegian. He was one of the leaders of a big communist network run by radio from Moscow. In the second half of the sixties, we broke most of the traffic between the communist resistance in the war […]

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] TV ads. From the start it had particularly strong ties (through McDonald and Singlaub) with the Conservative Action Group and also (through Singlaub) with the World Anti- Communist League and its numerous affiliates. (11) In May 1985 Linda Guell came over to Britain to organise and launch Western Goals (UK). Paul Masson, then a […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] agents. It seems unhelpful to me do do this and can, in fact, cause confusion and even help those wishing to lay false trails. The Comintern ( Communist International) was set up in March 1919, as the supposed successor to the Socialist International that had collapsed with the outbreak of war in August 1914, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] of the introduction the author (or authors) states: ‘Its creation was prompted by the desire of Ministers in Mr Atlee’s Labour government to devise means to combat Communist propaganda’. But ten lines later we find this. ‘Within the Foreign Office…..IRD evolved from plans drawn up in 1946. It took some time, however, for officials […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[PDF file]: This was reformatted in February 2025 Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain Robin Ramsay Since the Berlin Wall fell, the information from the former USSR about the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or […]

How many divisions does the Pope have?

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] 1943. These proved equally abortive. By then the Soviets were insisting on their 1914 borders: i.e. with the Catholic east Poland, Belarus, Ukraine etc. left securely under communist control. (2) With no progress at ending the war and further Axis reversals now common, a dismayed Vatican sought solace elsewhere. They approached Britain, via a […]

Five at Eye

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] It is worth noting that: The failure of the Groundnut Scheme was used as the basis of a smear campaign in 1951. Those tarnished included the former Communist John Strachey and his close friend Leslie Plummer, an East-West Trader. The scientific adviser to the scheme, and at the time a financial supporter of the […]

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