Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] is beyond dispute that elements of the far right put up Italian political refugees, there is no evidence that this fitted into an overall euro-fascist division of labour. The German connection In February 1983 three Germans, Gottfried Hepp, Walter Kexeland Ulrich Tillman, wanted in connection with bomb attacks there, were entertained by the self-styled […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] the pension she was due and resist SIS attempts to get her to spy for them in Parliament. She formed an unlikely long-distance alliance with the left-wing Labour MP the late Bob Cryer who, like her, was interested in the corruption of the parliamentary lobbying system. They never met. Just before their first arranged […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] In 1963 James Angleton, head of the CIA’s counter intelligence branch, following up the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] range as a reference group, thought the KGB story was a smear. Agee told us the lie we wanted to hear. (And one or two of the Labour MPs involved may have been within the Soviet orbit at the time.) Further, in the Soviet-American competition of the Cold War, to say something bad about […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] the Tory Party in 1979. On the British non-Trotskyist Left its origins lie in the 1975-78 period, and the ‘national security’ scares that were run against the Labour Government — the Agee-Hosenball expulsions and the Aubery, Berry and Campbell (ABC) trial for example. And these were mostly triggered by the fall-out from Watergate and […]
Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££
On Friday 7 August I was told by a journalist at another paper that the Mail on Sunday had a story that Cabinet Minister Peter Mandelson had worked for the spooks – though which branch was not clear. ‘That doesn’t surprise me,’ I said, and described Mandelson’s 1978 Foreign Office (or SIS?)-funded trip to Cuba. […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] about rock bands in Britain I never heard of, part poetry (seriously naff poetry), part rock culture trivia, and three huge pieces; ‘The CIA’s manipulation of the Labour Party’, ‘The FBI’s secret war against the American Indians’ and ‘British intelligence and covert action: how the British state supports international terrorism’. It’s a funny mixture. […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] in the 1970s. Hain, who unfortunately failed to unseat the dreadful David Mellor in Putney at the General Election, made some forthright and astute comments on the Labour Party’s failure to take all this on board in Time Out (15 April 1987). Vague No 18/19 Programming Phenomena and Conspiracy Theory Not really a book, […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all.’ () The alliance between political liberalism, mainstream (i.e. non-evangelical) Protestants, and organised labour had formed the political basis for the New Deal in the Roosevelt era. During the Depression, ‘The Federal Council of Churches had provided enthusiastic support for […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
War stories Evidence that the Royal Air Force colluded with their German enemies in the most secret air mission of the Second World War has been discovered in the Czech Republic. The personal log books of some of the 87 Czechoslovak fighter pilots who escaped the 1939 German occupation of their country to fly RAF … Read more
