The Myth of the SAS

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] of the SAS who turned the tide. This is nonsense. Given that the majority Malay population was firmly enlisted on the British side in the conflict, a Communist victory was never likely in Malaya. The decisive part in the defeat of the insurgency was actually played by the Briggs Plan and the commitment of […]

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] a hard nut to crack and the KGB was a ruthless opponent. There was little doubt as to the immediate post-war Soviet aim of bringing Austria under Communist control. After the 1947 crackdown in Romania and Hungary, the main KGB staff were transferred to the Russian HQ at Baden-bei-Wien, the scene of Prince Orlovsky’s […]

Jonestown. The secret life of Jim Jones: a parapolitical fugue

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999)

[…] Left, the Temple went out of its way to forge alliances with leaders of those same organizations: e.g. with the Black Panthers’ Huey Newton and with the Communist Party’s Angela Davis. Yet, despite these associations, and its ultra-left orientation, we are told that the Temple was not a target of investigation by either intelligence […]

Paranoia is what the other guy has

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)

[…] the idea that the Vietnamese communists were working as the puppets of the Chinese and the Russians as part of an orchestrated plan of Asiatic conquest. The communist world constituted a vast, ruthlessly disciplined left-wing conspiracy and a victory for North Vietnam would inevitably lead to the domination of Indochina, and perhaps all of […]

The CIA: A history of torture

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)

[…] into children at summer camp, attempted behaviour modification on inmates at California’s Vacaville prison and collected powerful toxins from Amazon tribes. Terminal experiments were carried out on Communist defectors who were suspected of being double agents. Mind control proved a fantasy, but academic research on sensory deprivation opened the possibility of a revolution in […]

Miscellany

Lobster Issue 8 (1985)

[…] note at the scene of the murder “arguing that the publisher had been helping the CIA to create a climate of uncertainty in Greece.” The World Anti- Communist League The World Anti-Communist League (WACL) has had a lot of attention recently. Less attention has been paid to the Asian Peoples’ Anti-Communist League (APACL), the […]

Reading Italy

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] Gordon and Morgan-Witts, Max Pontiff, Grenada, London 1983 Whale, John The Pope From Poland, Collins, London 1980 General Books on the Italian Political Scene Amyot G. Italian Communist Party, Croom Helm, London 1981 Davidson, A Theory and Practice of Italian Communism, Merlin, London 1982 Earle J. Italy in the 1970s, David and Charles, Newton […]

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] approved by Searchlight, is allowed to talk to the nationalist /fascist fringe. You’d never guess that messers Gable and Atkinson of Searchlight were once employed by the Communist Party of Great Britain, would you? RR 2. Searchlight – an appreciation If Searchlight seriously wanted fascist activity to decline one might expect it to attempt […]

The Ulster Citizen Army smear

Lobster Issue 14 (1987)

[…] 28 January 1973) At various times the UCA were said to have been in discussions with the Peoples’ Democracy group, the Official IRA, the British and Irish Communist Group and the Communist Party. The truth of these reports is impossible to evaluate. This is an extremely complicated episode in an extremely confusing period. The […]

PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] directors of the Rome World Trade Centre (Centro Mondiale Commerciale – aka CMC); that CMC was used as a conduit by the CIA for subsidies to anti- Communist groups; that CMC had links with the Italian Fascists; that CMC was affiliated with Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions); that Permindex had been expelled from Switzerland because […]

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