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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 […]

Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]

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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.48 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] other, and Stalin ordered Trotsky’s brutal murder. Bower, who, with his knowledge of the farLeft, ought to know you can belong to only one of these two communist factions. – p. 13. Bower accuses Corbyn of being ‘unable to engage in hard work’. On page 32 he describes him as ‘tirelessly active.’ Only one […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] information to run a modern economy. If it tried to erect a system of knowledge and values to this end it would end up as either a Communist or Fascist dictatorship. It could not allow people to think and act as they wished since it would be claiming a superior wisdom. Moreover its efforts […]

John Stonehouse book reviews

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] presented to their supervisors back home as intelligence-gathering and some of those with whom they were talking described as ‘agents’. Stonehouse was an interesting figure: an anti- communist, anti-imperialist member of the Labour and Co-operative Party. Julia Stonehouse refers, in passing, to an article her father wrote which was published in a 1959 collection, […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of law, and strong defence 2. To encourage strong transatlantic links between Britain, Europe, and North America 3. To assist and encourage the peoples of the former communist countries and other oppressive regimes across the world as they adopt democracy 4. To foster greater contact between Western nations and those of the Middle East […]

lob86View from Bridge

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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.48 I was reminded of Quigley by a recently acquired copy of a […]

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