Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover was also not interested in the pursuit of organised crime. This is generally thought to be because Hoover was obsessed with the ‘ communist threat’. Even after the 1957 accidental discovery of the meeting of the Mafia’s upper echelons at Apalachin, in New York State, ‘. . . as of […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were eventually recruited into the Auxiliary Units. Initially these volunteers were already serving in the Home Guard […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[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’ […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]