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[…] body Le Cercle’. Van Vurren mentioned a Le Cercle meeting in 1984 which discussed the serious threat of infiltration of socialist parties in Europe and elsewhere by communist agents. There was talk of left-wing Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. A year and half later Palme was assassinated. But so what? Does Nicholson want us […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

View from Bridge copy

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[…] lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable though this may have been to anyone who had contact with the CPGB,2 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]

Dallas again

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] know: very little is known about Meyer’s role in the CIA in this period.30 The few reports we have suggest that Meyer was an averagely zealous anti- communist (as were most of the Agency’s senior staff) and would have been opposed to JFK’s unstated policy of détente with the Soviet bloc.31 Meyer’s ex-wife was […]

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

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012) FREE

[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 […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that he got screwed. But I was most struck by […]

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