Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] 30 Nechiporenko (see note 27) p. 247. 31 Angleton’s reputation has come under relentless attack, most recently at a 29 March 2012 conference sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson Center and the Georgetown University Center for Security Studies entitled Moles, Defectors and Deceptions: James Angleton and His Influence on US Counterintelligence. At the conference, which […]

Newton on Keynes

Lobster Issue

[…] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]

Pisces Moon Valentine review text

Lobster Issue

[…] and wanted their part in the Douglas Valentine, The Phoenix Programme: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam. See . 3 This was reviewed by Dr. T. P. Wilson in Lobster 68 at or . 3 operations recorded? Why did William Colby, later Director of the CIA, who ran Phoenix, talk to Valentine about it […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] either the string on X23 or his substack.24 The lobby is still in there. Google AI and our secret history I have been reformatting Lobster 11, ‘ Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’, and have thus read it for the first time in years. It details the network of rightwing groups, paramilitary groups, […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]

Disclosure and deceit: Secrecy as the manipulation of history, not its concealment

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)

[PDF file]: […] and the public relations industry learned to exploit. The journalist George Creel called his memoir of the Committee on Public Information he chaired – formed by Woodrow Wilson to sell US entry into World War I – How We Advertised America. The campaign was successful in gaining mass support for a policy designed to […]

ViewfromtheBridge

Lobster Issue

[…] which ran the unions, which ran the Labour Party. Mrs Thatcher was one such patriot. When leader of the Opposition, she took the various allegations about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Frank Donner (see note 74) p. xiv and the various railroad police.7 6 In the rural South the Ku Klux Klan performed this function. By the time Wilson became president the demands of ‘progressives’ for government regulation of corporations were translated into increasing nationalisation of corporate police and the creation of federal police and […]

And in 5th Place? The long march to Freeport UK

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] mafia and people like pirate radio boss Ronan O’Rahilly (see below in the text) clearly had powerful advocates. 22 On why Thorpe was preferred: through 1969 both Wilson (PM) and Heath (Leader of the Opposition) were polling very badly whilst the Liberal Party were at 15%, and won the Birmingham (Ladywood) bye-election in June […]

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