View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] 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.27 […]

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 […]

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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

The view from the bridge Robin Ramsay Harold Smith RIP Harold Smith has died. In Lobster 24 I summarised Smith’s account of witnessing the outgoing British state rigging the pre-independence elections in Nigeria which, he argued, led to the Biafran war and millions of dead. Smith’s story can be found by Googling ‘Harold Smith + […]

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 […]

Inside Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] been discovered some sixteen years before by Kevin Coogan in his study of Francis Parker Yockey, and it was in the pages of The Worker, the American Communist Party paper, where a front-page story was headlined, ‘American Nazis Establish Their National Headquarters in Queens’ (it got some facts wrong, like claiming it was Rockwell’s […]

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