Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[PDF file]: […] ascendant. This was also true in Britain – the U.S.’s partner in the post-war arrangements. The most important problem the U.S. had was in the U.K.(53) The Communist ‘threat’ A substantial section of the British secret state and its allies in the Conservative Party, business and the media believed, or found it useful to […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[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 […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s operational zone included a long section of the […]

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[…] was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s administrative area included a long section of the […]

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