The Tory Right between the wars

Lobster Issue 15 (1988)

[…] conservatism. Published the Empire Citizen. The BWL was secretly funded by Hannon’s BCU, the money laundered through another of Hannon’s creations, Comrades of the Great War. Havelock Wilson, founder of the Seaman’s Union, one of the union leaders bought by Hannon, was Vice President of the BWL. (1) Some of these operations were detected […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and UFOs’. Number 6, Winter 1992, has an interview with Deborah Davis on Katherine Graham, Mary Meyer etc; ‘Was the Turin Shroud Buried?’, […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. Copies are free on request from The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington DC 20560. They are also on the project’s Website: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/cwihp Flatland Flatland 14 contains 63 pages of […]

Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]

From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading U.S. expert on South Asia said here.’ ‘”I warned them that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made […]

New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] that the British state was engaged in continuous guerrilla warfare in its colonies after the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] wrote: ‘I can now reveal that in 1967, I talked at some length to the head of MI6, the late Sir Maurice Oldfield, who helped to persuade Wilson not to accede to Lyndon Johnson’s request to send a battalion of bagpipers (sic) to Vietnam. (Johnson wanted a token presence in Vietnam…)’ Anthony Cavendish, former […]

Miscellaneous: Cold war. Disinformation. Elite. Unclassified. G.K. Young, Unison

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)

[…] of all people and who regard the idea of hereditary privilege elites as both divisive and morally repugnant.’ 16 A4 pages, it is published by Dr. Edgar Wilson at 29 Heath End Road, Alsager, Stoke on Trent ST7 2SQ at 1.50 per issue. (No information on overseas prices or subscriptions.) I found it rather […]

Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[…] May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, but probably because of his knowledge of the secret services. […]

Books and Pamphlets

Lobster Issue 13 (1987)

[…] thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it is worth getting. (How effective a piece of satire, and how good a piece of […]

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