Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
[PDF file]: […] while trying to stay within their charter, and resisting the siren calls of ‘conspiracy theorists’. In the early 1970’s MI5 had concluded that the ‘threat’ of the Communist Party had declined; and switched resources to what Peter Wright sneeringly called the ‘far and wide left’ – the Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were eventually recruited into the Auxiliary Units. Initially these volunteers were already serving in the Home Guard […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the House of Lords (after being a Brexit Party MEP) is too striking to pass without mention. Both began their political lives as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose remnants went way beyond parody when they accepted funding from the Koch brothers.63 A detailed account of this strange saga is to be had […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] or thought they could use – Goleniewski’s claim to be the surviving son of Tzar Nicholas of Russia. Most of them were part of the international anti- communist movement and many of This is the second recent book on Goleniewski. The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] it was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)