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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[PDF file]: […] also significant. There was the planning for a Baltic expedition, without air cover, in the autumn of 1939; the attempt at turning the war into an anti- communist campaign in Finland a few months later; the disastrous failure in Norway that this produced (which, ironically, propelled Churchill to power); the diversion of forces from […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
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 […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] on economic matters but seems to have fallen out of favour because his own large family was deemed offensive at the time of the ‘one-child’ policy. He also confirms that Harold Wilson was destabilised and made paranoid by rogue elements in the security forces who thought him a communist agent. But we all knew that.