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The EU: A Corporatist Racket: How the European Union was created by global corporatism for global corporatism by David Barnby

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] This is the best account I have read of the campaign run by the pro-EEC lobby in this country. The state, including the Information Research Department ( IRD), the quasi-independent antisubversion, anti-communist propaganda organisation, co- 1 The ACUE/European Movement, for example, was first discussed in ‘How the European Movement was launched’ in Hirsch and […]

That option no longer exists: Britain 1974-76 by John Medhurst

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] counter-organise and the author gives us a pretty detailed account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

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[PDF file]: […] I remember nothing about it at all. It is now available on Kindle at . The first allegations about LBJ were made in the 1966 play Macb ird!. On which see . 67 See for example and . 68 69 Specifically this piece of vintage 1963 Soviet boilerplate: ‘The assassination of JFK on November […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]

The Defence of the Realm

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[…] lack of interest in the ‘Soviet threat’ triggered the formation of the anti-subversion lobby which gathered round Brian Crozier in the early 1970s – CIA, MI6 and IRD personnel who were not persuaded of the decline of the ‘Soviet threat’. (This was part of the wider debate about the reality of détente between NATO […]

The View from the Bridge

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[PDF file]: […] wholly unaffected by any treaty change. The financial services industry in Britain constitutes 7.5% of GDP and employs a million people; the City represents perhaps a th ird of that and, in turn, that part threatened – if it was threatened at all – some fraction of that. This is a tiny economic interest. […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] inflation and so forth.(3) Part 1: Edward Heath and the rise of the City ‘The Empire may have disintegrated and the UK may now be a th ird rate power, but the City of London has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira […]

Misleading Parliament – a case to answer

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Director of Psychological Operations’ and that ‘all operations will normally be approved by him’. However, political disinformation was normally carried out by the Information Research Department ( IRD) – part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office – and approval for such activities was given by the Director and Co-ordinator of Intelligence at the Northern […]