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 […]

Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the growth of dual use anthropology by David H. Price

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] across the world and at home. Book publishing, art, psychiatry, academia, student organisations, political parties, newspapers, magazines, charities and motion pictures were all incorporated into this anti- Communist crusade.1 And so was anthropology.2 In the first half of his book Professor Price assembles what is now known of the CIA’s (and the Pentagon’s) activities […]

Has a DNA test solved the Rudolf Hess doppelgänger mystery?

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] British Army surgeon Hugh Thomas. The introduction to that book was written by Dame Rebecca West, a daring feminist and ally of Orwell in the 1930s anti- communist awkward squad who had a son and a ten-year affair with H.G. Wells. In her introduction, West suggested it was ‘. . . the duty of […]

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 […]

The rise of New Labour

Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)

[PDF file]: […] of NuLab at the top of greasy pole in 1997 was just business as usual. Since the early 1950s America had programmes to talent-spot throughout the non- communist world and promote the rising politicians it thought would support its interests. That Uncle Sam would do this here isn’t surprising: this island was its most […]

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 […]

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