Finks: How the CIA tricked the World’s Best Writers by Joel Whitney

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] American actions against Cuba, Che’s death and the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Brazil. The CIA’s people in the literary field believed they were promoting the non- communist left (NCL to use the Agency acronym), and nobbling those deemed to be too comm-symp (such as Neruda), with material aimed at the actual and potentially […]

2011: a Reagan odyssey

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] portrayed all the important mythic roles the republic had to offer in the 20th century: scientist, athlete, army officer (ironically George A. Custer), New Dealer, unionist, anti- communist, and spokesman for a variety of corporate interests, mainly the General Electric trust. He became rich from speculation when real estate was being expropriated from Japanese-Americans […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of the country as far as he was concerned: We were living in a country that was almost the opposite of everything it claimed to be, the communist system promised equality, justice, and security. Instead the Soviet state offered no effective safety net; its officials were mostly corrupt and barely competent; it was lacking […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] or less given its head by Mrs Thatcher, who believed – genuinely, as far as I can determine – that Britain really was facing a vast, Soviet-funded communist conspiracy, ‘the enemy within’. And so when Green heard that Murrell was missing it wasn’t so irrational that he should ring the Shropshire police and inform […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] to local officials in Nevada, where Hughes moved in late 1966. Hughes’s financial relationship with Nixon began with campaign contributions in 1946 and blossomed during the anti- communist witch hunts of the late 1940s and early 1950s. For example, in 1952, Nixon lauded Howard Hughes and his studio, RKO Pictures, for taking legal action […]

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