The View from the Bridge

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[…] who, as vice president had been excluded from the major war decisionmaking, and was a believer in the threat posed by international communism. The crusade against the communist threat was irresistible and those who opposed it were ignored or crushed as com-symps, fellow-travellers, naifs. George Kennan, deputy head of the U.S. mission in Moscow […]

More Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] that allowed trusted interlocutors to side-step belligerent generals and committed political adversaries, without any of the complications of democracy. Monarchs also tended to share Hitler’s virulently anti- communist views.5 In the Hess case, we should note that after his second conversation with the Duke of Hamilton, the Duke came to London (15 May) and […]

9/11 attracts mainstream critics

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] efforts of a third Republican, the conservative commentator and former Fox News presenter Tucker Carlson.3 And what in ‘voodoo history’ – the phrase is that of former Communist and Murdoch columnist David Aaronovitch – has brought this trio together? The events of September 11 2001. 4 When the three Manhattan towers came down almost […]

view from bridge

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[…] 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 […]

The SIS and London-based foreign dissidents: some patterns of espionage

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] equivalents are working for their country. The murder of a British businessman who worked in China and was associated with the now disgraced Bo Xilai, the former Communist Party chief of Chongqing who was once tipped for high office, was characterised by systematic British media undermining of the dead man’s character (presumably because it […]

The Black Door: Spies, Secret Intelligence and British Prime Ministers by Richard Aldrich and Rory Cormac

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] Furnival Jones, MI5’s Director, no previous Prime Minister had ever shown ‘such enthusiasm for regular up-to-the-minute reports during an industrial dispute’. Wilson was particularly pleased that the Communist Party headquarters was ‘comprehensively bugged’. And he actively encouraged rightwing union leaders to collaborate with MI5. One of the leading figures in the GMWU, Sir Harry […]

View from Bridge copo

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[…] in America, especially the John Birch Society, which saw his book as proof that there really was a great conspiracy. It might not have been the great communist conspiracy the Birchers previously thought they could see but it was a conspiracy nonetheless.35 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] the allegations that he knew Hess. What now appears to be the case is that Harry Pollitt, the defendant in the action (and secretary to the British Communist Party) had picked the wrong family member. When accusing the Duke of knowing Rudolf Hess before the war, he should have chosen perhaps the Duchess of […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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 […]

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