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Lobster Issue

[…] frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence operative Brian Crozier (1918–2012). Lobster has analyzed his role in anti-communist networks, his relationship with British intelligence (MI5/ IRD) and the CIA, and his private intelligence activities. Key Connections and Coverage: • Free Agent (1993): Lobster reviewed and referenced Brian Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent: The […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] Soviet propaganda machine, led by the World Peace Council, was this: ‘In the United Kingdom, the counter-subversion arm of the Foreign Office, the Information Research Department ( IRD) was destroyed in a complex operation in which the CIA traitor, Philip Agee, played a leading part.’ Notice the misdirection: that IRD was the arm of […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence operative Brian Crozier (1918–2012). Lobster has analyzed his role in anti-communist networks, his relationship with British intelligence (MI5/ IRD) and the CIA, and his private intelligence activities. Key Connections and Coverage: • Free Agent (1993): Lobster reviewed and referenced Brian Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent: The […]

92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] frequently covered the career of journalist, author, and intelligence operative Brian Crozier (1918–2012). Lobster has analyzed his role in anti-communist networks, his relationship with British intelligence (MI5/ IRD) and the CIA, and his private intelligence activities. Key Connections and Coverage: • Free Agent (1993): Lobster reviewed and referenced Brian Crozier’s memoir, Free Agent: The […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance I quote him below under subhead Broken-down […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department ( IRD) is discussed in passing. They certainly played a substantial role in Cold War covert (and sometimes overt) propaganda. This was usually via the media, and occasionally […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[PDF file]: […] centred on the plethora of CPGB front organisations such as the friendship societies. This is presumably the early influence of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department ( IRD) in supplying anti-communist material. Focused on events in Europe, it was the the Soviet-run front organisations which struck IRD. But from the early 1950s, as the […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]

View from Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] go wrong? While it’s true that there is still no absolute proof that the covid outbreak began at the Wuhan lab, can it just be a we ird coincidence that the source of the outbreak and the research lab were both in the same city? The reluctance of the western military to acknowledge this […]

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Lobster Issue

[…] question what Washington knows about the origins of Havana Syndrome, and what an appropriate Western response might entail. (emphasis added) The use of ‘may’ in the th ird line of that paragraph is striking. What they offer is much closer to ‘almost certainly is’ than it is to ‘may’. The incidents began in 2014, […]

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