The strength of the Pack by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] media to create a popular image of most wanted criminals and the need for G-men to capture or kill them. The twin threats of spectacular criminals and communist subversives fed the FBI director’s greed for power over what became a kind of federal secret police. At almost the same time, Harry Anslinger, previously an […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]

View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] long before his death. A scathing review of his 1956 book Pan-Africanism or Communism? described it as “infuriating”; it classified Padmore among those “who have revolted against Communist conduct and cynicism, but can never free themselves from Communist ideology”. The review was written by Rita Hinden, who was carefully selected for the task. Michael […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] his membership last year” or something like that.’ And Robinson would be liaising with MI5 to access its files. In the same essay, Saunders wrote of the Communist Party of Great Britain: ‘In the international communist movement, the British party was a laughing stock, correctly assumed to be so 11 Script at . thoroughly […]

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M. Coupland

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] later in the 1930s. He argues that Jenks’ own hatred of Jews was simply a radicalisation of common, mainstream prejudices against Jews as rapacious capitalists, criminals or Communist subversives. Jenks himself had little interest in the issue, and discussed the matter in depth on only one occasion, in his book Spring Comes Again of […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] £11.99, p/b www.zero-books.net Rexamaining the mid-1970s from a Labour left perspective, as the author does, is an interesting idea. Once again we can read about: * the Communist Party’s Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions, which resulted in the CP having ‘an influence within the trade union movement vastly out of proportion […]

Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] Sadat that he would have the full backing of the Saudi royal family if he leaned towards the US. As a result, Sadat became ‘as staunchly anti- communist as the Shah and the Saudis’.6 Midolo wanted to ask Prince Turki about ‘the so-called Safari Club, a coalition of foreign intelligence services based in Cairo […]

View from Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] murders surrounding the Estes events. There are three items which suggest that Joesten was being run by the KGB. Joesten had been a member of the German Communist Party before the war and had his first book on the assassination published by a small New York outfit, Marzani and Munsell, subsidised by the KGB.18 […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

Lobster Issue

[…] Philby became the primary, if not only suspect as the ‘Third Man’. All three had attended Cambridge together in the 1930s, and Burgess and Maclean had expressed communist sympathies in the pre–World War II era, when it was fashionable to be anti-fascist and pro-communist. But being sympathetic with communists fighting fascism was not the […]

Using the UK FOIA, part II

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)

[PDF file]: […] et de Contre-Espionnage. Following the WUCC meetings Colonel Mercier was posted to Berne, Switzerland, in 1952, under cover as Commercial Attaché. Whilst there, he ran operations against Communist North African Nationalists who were seeking asylum in Switzerland. Mercier collaborated with Swiss Federal Police (contrary to Swiss law). In late March 1957 his contact in […]

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