A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the security agencies would have more naturally been the responsibility of MI5, but they were already stretched to full capacity in attempting to monitor both German and Communist agents who were already in place.5 Roughly 3,000 men were eventually recruited into the Auxiliary Units. Initially these volunteers were already serving in the Home Guard […]

Creating Chaos: Covert Political Warfare, from Truman to Putin by Larry Hancock

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and the simple rejection of Western cultural dominance. The reality was that the rapid collapse of the existing colonial empires was rooted not in an all-powerful world communist ideological expansion but rather in what was a unique opportunity for nationalist and even local ethnic movements.’ (pp. 92/3) Hancock doesn’t discuss how genuine the Americans’ […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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.32 […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] remains unclear to me but my guess would be that they were what they seemed: Permindex was a CIA front and il Paese Sera was not a Communist front. what we might call friends of Lyndon were murdering people in Texas was hinted at in 1964 by Texan politician J. Evetts Haley. He had […]

Unredacted: Russia, Trump and the Fight for Democracy by Christopher Steele

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[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 […]

White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] day by day, sometimes even hour by hour. To justify the killing of Lumumba and the installation of an American puppet, the CIA duly invented a ‘ communist plot’. Williams quotes Williams notes on p. 34: ‘By 1959, about 9 per cent of the world’s copper, 49 percent of cobalt (rising to 54 percent […]

View from the bridge

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[…] 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.32 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a superpower and a clear guarantor of peace. He does not see any threat to England from the Soviet Union, just as he does not see a communist threat in his country in general. In the meantime, good relations with such a country (i.e. if the Soviet Union views him, Hayward, as a major […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and a number of his friends and colleagues were expelled from the ILP for opposing cooperation with the Labour Party. They remained together and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP), a very small Trotskyist faction whose most prominent members were Ted Grant and Gerry Healy. Like them, Smith regarded the Labour Party 1945 election […]

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