Fiji coup update

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] Freeman in Fiji. WPR adds information on Freeman, mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly […]

There’s no smear like an old smear

Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] did a little checking. The earliest version of this theme I have found appeared in the 1963 Jack and Bessie Braddock book The Braddocks. (The Braddocks were Labour MPs who began on the left and ended on the Catholic right.) There, between pages 223-5, Bessie quotes at some length from a document headed ‘Cominform […]

Spies at Work

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] to assault us. And when they looked for published information on the antecedents of this group of people and organisations, they found almost nothing there – just Labour Research (God bless ’em) and a few books and pamphlets in libraries What has happened is clearly enough. Hughes began researching the Economic League and, en […]

Lobster Issue 47: Contents

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] on ‘full spectrum dominance’. As the text for this issue was being finished, the British media was full of stories about disillusion with Tony Blair and New Labour. Just this once I’ll say it: Lobster – that is this writer and other contributors – never believed a word of it and the analyses of […]

Miscellaneous: Manning Clark. L. Ron Hubbard Jnr.

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] Hubbard Jnr. mentions two famous people who were involved with Hubbard Snr. One was Errol Flynn and the other ‘a man who was high up in the Labour Party at the time…a double agent for the KGB and for the British intelligence agency MI5. He was also a raging homosexual. He wanted my father […]

MI5 and the threat from the left in the 1970s

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] This would be followed by incidents of sabotage “complicated by a revival of the IRA.” ‘ According to Burns, the paper presented a scenario ‘in which a Labour government, acceding to trade union and other militant demands, radicalised its policies against the private sector and the UK’s NATO commitments.’ Burns commented that, The paper] […]

One Boggis-Rolfe or two?: Philby: The Hidden Years

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] Solomon and Rothschild, some members of the British upper classes knew of Blunt’s role and the subsequent offer of immunity. Though not, until much later, Wilson, the Labour Prime Minister, nor his Law Officers, the Attorney General and the Solicitor General. The Lord Chancellor, Gerald Gardiner, and Elwyn Jones were kept uninformed for ten […]

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] and Searchlight sharing journalists and photographers. (2) Daphne Liddle is a member of the NCP; works for both the New Worker and Searchlight; defended Searchlight in the Labour Briefing debate on Searchlight in late 1992; edited Forewarned Against Fascism in the late 1970s; and was apparently the lover of Searchlight’s ‘mole’ in Column 88, […]

Inside ‘Inside Intelligence’

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] of which could all too easily cause a major diplomatic incident. In later years, it has always amazed me that these various operations were authorised by a Labour government in London and I attributed this to the power of the Foreign Secretary at that time, Ernest Bevin. Part of my briefing covered the fact […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] and one the much vaunted razor-sharp minds at the Treasury didn’t see. Why was Britain not in Vietnam? In a Sunday Times article of 29 October 2000 Labour MP Tam Dalyell wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, […]

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