Angles Morts

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] the feminists, the Communists and so on.’ He says he told them about a woman living with a Communist;6 about another official who had stood as a Communist in a council election; and about the leadership style of the General Secretary, Monsignor Bruce Kent. “They were interested in everybody. The Communists aren’t running CND. […]

David Shayler, ‘Tunworth’ and the LIFG

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] ‘I can put my hand on my heart and say that I never investigated subversives. Indeed, I did the opposite and closed down the study of the Communist Party of Britain and Class War. Most of the work I did was against terrorism.’18 In a brief email discussion about this, Garrick Alder pointed out […]

Sex scandals and sexual blackmail in America’s deep politics

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] offices of the National Maritime Union, Hoover concluded that the union’s two top officials were both sexually ‘servicing’ Eleanor Roosevelt, probably to further the aims of the Communist party.20 Hoover was careful not to use any such gossip against her while her husband was alive. In 1953, however, he arranged a briefing for top […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] James Byrnes (1882–1982) congressman US senator and governor of South Carolina, US Secretary of State under F D Roosevelt and H S Truman, ardent segregationist and anti- communist. Bernard Baruch (1870–1965) stockbroker, banker, chair of the War Industries Board under Woodrow Wilson and a principal political-economic advisor to Roosevelt and Truman. Walter Lippmann (1889–1974) […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 Also known as the Pinay Circle or Le Cercle Pinay, it is another of those secretive, international anti- communist groups of spooks and pols formed during the Cold War. There is some interesting material from Le Cercle on the Net.2 Somebody has been leaking its […]

The British Gladio and the murder of Sergeant Speed

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain in several of Britain’s biggest trade unions. In the mid-1970s a section of the Conservative Party and its allies within the state […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] fifth, final and slightly revised version is now on-line.1 Also known as the Pinay Circle or Le Cercle Pinay, it is another of those secretive, international anti- communist groups of spooks and pols formed during the Cold War. There is some interesting material from Le Cercle on the Net.2 Somebody has been leaking its […]

lob81-british-gladio2

Lobster Issue

[…] Harold Wilson was a KGB asset, if not an agent; and that the KGB influenced – even ran – the Labour Party through the role of the Communist Party of Great Britain in several of Britain’s biggest trade unions. In the mid-1970s a section of the Conservative Party and its allies within the state […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] when he writes: ‘It will show how, as successive American governments sink deeper and deeper into the vortex of covert operations — ostensibly to combat terrorism and Communist insurgencies — the American people gradually lose touch with the democratic ideals that once defined their national self-concept. This book asks what happens when Phoenix comes […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Newham Labour Party. He was acting as a secret agent of the well-financed Freedom Association, which funded strike-breakers and clandestine operations against the Labour left and communist Party. Newham militants were getting rid of a rightwing Labour MP called Reg Prentice and the young Lewis, then a graduate student at St Antony’s Oxford, […]

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