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 […]

Downing Street Diary: With Harold Wilson in No. 10

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] Wilson (and Falkender and Donoughue) were very pro-Israeli and there are many reports here of Israeli diplomats visiting No. 10. When Tony Blair became leader of the Labour Party in 1994, his private office was funded by Jewish businessmen, led by Lord Levy. (2) Is it really of no political interest that the Israeli […]

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 […]

A Century of Spin

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008)

[…] League and its forebears, such as the British Commonwealth Union. (But this section omits the fact that these groups were initially formed not just to oppose organised labour and the left but also to fight for the interests of domestic manufacturing against the interests of the City. The struggle with globalisation began a long […]

Robin Ramsay, editor

Lobster Issue

[…] the current editor. For contact details click here. Books by Robin Ramsay Politics and Paranoia (Hove: Picnic Publishing, 2008) Who Shot JFK? (2002) The Rise of New Labour (2002) Conspiracy Theories: Almost Everything You Need to Know in One Essential Guide (2000) Smear! Wilson and the Secret State (1991) by Stephen Dorrill and Robin […]

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, […]

SIS: Dearlove, Spedding and PR

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2)

[…] had enormous prestige. Worse, when the struggle for influence was at its most intense because Foreign Office power was being eroded in the short term by a Labour government mesmerised by corporate muscle demanding, among other things, commercial targets for diplomats, Spedding backed what he perceived to be SIS’s best interests – multinational patrons, […]

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 […]

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