Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] 16. (The first five pages of chapter one describe Wynne’s arrest and transportation to the Lubyanka prison.) 22 loony faction of MI5 that were convinced there were communist sympathisers in the Harold Wilson’s Cabinet.23 Protecting the Trumps Donald Trump has many enemies and, in most cases, he would seem to be the one responsible […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] ‘gentlemen’ professional soldiers, who came to be exemplified by Mike Hoare. Demobbed at the end of WWII with the rank of Major, and an admittedly virulent anti- Communist, he led the mercenary force which fought in the Democratic Republic of the Congo from July ‘64 to December ‘65. In those intense 18 months he […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] to broker peace deals with the UK. There was a generally pro-German, anti-Russian stance of many Swedes at that time. This stemmed from the emergence of a Communist state in Russia (from 1917) and the Soviet attack on Finland (in 1939), the latter resulting in a Swedish Volunteer Corps fighting alongside the Finns.3 These […]
Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/ Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Oswald owned a Mannlicher-Carcano; and as recent analysis seems to have confirmed, the photographs of him posing with the rifle and American left newspapers, both Trotskyist and Communist, were authentic (despite his claim that they had been faked).13 In his memoir Chauncey Holt tells us that, in the months before the assassination, the weapons […]