View from the 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.27 […]

Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] and the simple rejection of Western cultural dominance. The reality was that the rapid collapse of the existing colonial empires was rooted not in an all-powerful world communist ideological expansion but rather in what was a unique opportunity for nationalist and even local ethnic movements.’ (pp. 92/3) Hancock doesn’t discuss how genuine the Americans’ […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Hugh Gaitskell, his predecessor as leader of the Labour Party. It claims that Gaitskell, a pro-American, had been assassinated by the KGB in order to install a communist sympathiser as probable future prime minister. Anatoly Golitsyn, a Soviet agent who had defected to the West, claimed that Wilson had been acting as a KGB […]

Historical Notes on British complicity in the Gaza genocide

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] important oil supplier. They were run by generally conservative regimes which backed Britain’s anti-Soviet position in the Cold War, out of a concern that the expansion of Communist influence into the Middle East could provoke revolution and the overthrow of Mark Curtis, ‘Secret UK-Israel military deal in place throughout genocide’, Declassified UK, 20 October […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] remains unclear to me but my guess would be that they were what they seemed: Permindex was a CIA front and il Paese Sera was not a Communist front. 16 He is probably not going to be invited to the annual banquet of the City of London’s Lord Mayor. The assertion I have italicised […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)

[PDF file]: […] day by day, sometimes even hour by hour. To justify the killing of Lumumba and the installation of an American puppet, the CIA duly invented a ‘ communist plot’. Williams quotes Williams notes on p. 34: ‘By 1959, about 9 per cent of the world’s copper, 49 percent of cobalt (rising to 54 percent […]

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