Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S.

Lobster Issue 12 (1986)

[PDF file]: […] to Sukarno and advance man for Krupp.90 The consequences of this CIA favour to Nasser and the Nazis were to be widespread and long term. Skorzeny left Egypt after about a year, but he left behind him about 50 former S.S. and Gestapo men, many of them recruited from Argentina and neighbouring countries by […]

Six Moments of Crisis: inside British foreign policy by Gill Bennett

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] did not like foreigners’. By contrast, Eden was ‘an Arabic speaker with a deep knowledge of Middle Eastern history and politics, and had a long association with Egypt’. So Harold Wilson grovelled in front of American President Lyndon Johnson at every opportunity? As Washington huffed and puffed over ‘East of Suez’, insisting Britain ought […]

The Clandestine Lives of Colonel David Smiley: Code Name ‘Grin’ by Clive Jones

Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)

[PDF file]: […] commander in the Middle East, was a family friend – to secure a transfer to 52 Commando, going on to serve in Abyssinia. The unit returned to Egypt where they were tasked with guarding the docks in Alexandria and regularly came into conflict with offduty Australian soldiers. Smiley, in his biographer’s words, ‘condoned’ the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Laden, backed by elements within the Saudi government, did 9/11 and the buildings were demolished by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Denial is not a river in Egypt You may be all ‘Trumped–out’, tired of endless demonstrations of the obvious: the man is an obnoxious dummy.59 I’ve been keeping only half an eye on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Laden, backed by elements within the Saudi government, did 9/11 and the buildings were demolished by persons unknown for reasons unknown. Denial is not a river in Egypt You may be all ‘Trumped–out’, tired of endless demonstrations of the obvious: the man is an obnoxious dummy.59 I’ve been keeping only half an eye on […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] Libyan government. Renamed Radio Jamharia, it anchored off Tobruk and broadcast ‘Libya International in English’, supporting and endorsing the Gaddafi regime, much of it aimed at neighbouring Egypt. This continued until 1984 when the ship was decommissioned, stripped of its fittings and sunk as a target for bombing practice by the Libyan air force. […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

Lobster Issue

[…] territory of Ukraine, radicalisation of the population, and triggering of infight . American instructors show examples of successful use of social networks used to organise protests in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya.163 The day after Tsaryov’s parliamentary revelations, the Euromaidan began.164 The prime mover was Mustafa Nayem, a former People’s Deputy of the Ukrainian parliament, […]

Pegasus: The Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] to provide intelligence to help in a cyber campaign against Iran’s nuclear program. It also infected computers in the West Bank, Sudan, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Egypt. Flame was capable of stealing data from infected computers, logging keystrokes, activating computer microphones to record conversations, and taking screenshots. What made it so effective was […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] Belgrade. He didn’t fly out until the 16 December, and then by a convoluted route that took in Lisbon, the Canary Islands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, the Sudan, Egypt and Greece. He is away until 20 February 1941. This section of the book, covering some 50 pages, is a brilliantly written piece of travel writing. […]

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