The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing on the names of suspected 1 Communist fellow-travellers. Referring to the abolition of the Central Office of Information in 2011, Anthony also states (p. 20), ‘The constraints on centralised state power that existed […]

Newsinger on KItson

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A Work of Camouflage Intelligent Warfare: The Memoirs of General Sir Frank Kitson GBE, KCB, MC and Bar, DL Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2024, £25 h/b John Newsinger What is most interesting about this posthumous memoir by General Frank Kitson is what it does not say, exactly how little it contributes to our knowledge and […]

From an Office Building with a High-powered Rifle by Don Adams

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] Freedom. He was also cosy with the leaders of the Ku Klux Klan and, to round off his catholic enthusiasms, was convinced there was a big Jewish/ Communist conspiracy. On 9 November 1963 Willie Somersett (a name straight out of James Ellroy), a professional police informant and childhood friend of Milteer, met with him […]

Newsinger Armed and Dangerous 88

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Armed and Dangerous: The US Far Right in the Trump era John Newsinger In the aftermath of the 6 January 2021 capitol insurrection in Washington DC, a large number of books have been published examining the background to the event and warning of the dangers that still lie ahead. This review looks at only a […]

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 […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] murders. Almost everyone who knew Whitson well believed he was working for some branch of the CIA, operating in various parts of the world as an anti- communist penetration agent and fixer. O’Neill writes, ‘Once he’d consumed me, I found myself fixating on possibilities that I would’ve dismissed as insane only months before.’ CHAOS […]

Newton on Keynes

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[…] over the requirements of material sustenance and the drudgery of mindless wage work’.10 It was a vision which bore some striking similarities to Marx’s vision of a Communist society, where ‘society regulates the general production’ and scarcity would cease to exist, ending all need for the division of labour: ‘nobody has one exclusive sphere […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] 15 16 Ligia Amancio ‘Trump e o pós-politicamente correcto’, Publico, 27 January 2017, p. 47 views with which they cannot agree. Nazis and the now largely defunct communist parties of what was once called the Soviet bloc are the only ones whose use of language was supposedly deceptive or simply dishonest. In what was […]

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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