Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] or thought they could use – Goleniewski’s claim to be the surviving son of Tzar Nicholas of Russia. Most of them were part of the international anti- communist movement and many of This is the second recent book on Goleniewski. The first, by Tim Tate, was reviewed by me at . 4 It is […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] it was simply impossible to tell truth from fantasy, fact from fiction.’ (p. 200) On this account, IRD looks more significant that it has done previously. Its communist conspiracy idiocies of the 50s and 60s were not its only activity and the author presents accounts of IRD interfering in the local politics of British […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the House of Lords (after being a Brexit Party MEP) is too striking to pass without mention. Both began their political lives as members of the Revolutionary Communist Party, whose remnants went way beyond parody when they accepted funding from the Koch brothers.63 A detailed account of this strange saga is to be had […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] the likelihood that other units would have been formed and tasked with similar duties in other countries that were deemed as ‘weak in the face of the Communist threat’? The paranoid mindset prevalent in the Foreign Office at 10 Dorril, MI6 (see note 8) p. 100. 11 See pp. 63/4 of John L. Bebber, […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] while trying to stay within their charter, and resisting the siren calls of ‘conspiracy theorists’. In the early 1970’s MI5 had concluded that the ‘threat’ of the Communist Party had declined; and switched resources to what Peter Wright sneeringly called the ‘far and wide left’ – the Trotskyist fragments. MI5’s lack of interest in […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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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 […]