Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) 
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				[PDF file]:  […] writer in the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened […] 
			 
			 
	
					
			Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) 
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				[PDF file]:  […] extreme left (secretly) to extreme right (publicly)’.6 This abrupt change of outlook is put down to his Soviet contacts: having been recruited to work underground for the Communist cause on his return from Austria, Philby was instructed to present himself as an establishment figure, in the expectation that this would facilitate his access to […] 
			 
			 
	
					
			Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) 
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				[PDF file]:  […] his mission to save America, is remarkable. Steven Mnuchin, Trump’s Secretary of the Treasury, for example, was ‘another Goldman Sachs alumn, had raised and made millions from Communist China prior to joining the administration, and he had his jaundiced, pieces of silver, Judas Iscariot eye on making billions more’. And these were not beliefs […]