In Lobster 17 we published two German intelligence reports on a covert propaganda group called the Pinay Circle. In this article we give background and investigate the Pinay Circle’s activities. Member of Parliament ‘G’: I don’t know if it (the Pinay Circle) has any political significance, but, in any case, it has little impact. For … Read more
[…] Habsburgs and Intermarium since the 1920s.() Seeking, perhaps, to pursue this opening given the silence from the British the German resistance made two attempts to kill Hitler (13 and 21 March 1943). Meanwhile the Hitler-Stalin proposal flickered back into life. In June 1943 serious talks were held in Stockholm and there was […]
[…] name of Lady Bird) purchased the Austin radio station KTBC in 1953, it was first located in the Brown Building, and later moved to the Brown-owned Dris kill building for which. KTBC did not have to pay. (11) The Texas political culture of the time was described thus: ‘What must surely be the most […]
A secret service? In the Guardian of 12 June 2000 David Leigh had an important piece on the relationship between our secret servants and the media. At the core of this was his account of the revelation, via a libel suit in London, of an MI6 operation to plant disinformation in the Sunday Telegraph about … Read more
Books The Secret War: an account of the sinister activities along the border involving Gardai, RUC, British Army and SAS Patsy McArdle (Mercier Press, Dublin 1984) McArdle is a journalist with Downtown Radio in Northern Ireland. Journalists sometimes write really good books, but McArdle’s is a stinker, little more than a jumbled collection of recycled … Read more
[…] who’s pulling the trigger and indeed may have encouraged it in the first place – but its fingerprints are rarely, if ever, found.’ Philip Johnson, ‘Licensed to kill? Yes, but…’, The Daily Telegraph, 23 February 2008. See also Stephen Dorril, ‘The truth about MI6…’, The Express, 22 February 2008. Dearlove’s evidence at the inquest […]
SIS is dead – you read it first in Lobster – but the funeral has not been announced. Established in 1909, it will not make its centenary. SIS once offered a global brand operating in a market that had been previously divided along the lines of accepted cartels (market fixing). Its market-share, however, has been … Read more
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed account … Read more
[…] lousy swine like Jeffrey Hamm to get up on a street corner in the East End of London and shout, ‘Down with the Jews. Burn the synagogues. Kill the Aliens,’ and he gets away with it, but if a person tries to pull him up, what happens? The so-called keepers of law and order, […]
See also: Part 1: British Fascism 1974-92 (Lobster 23) Part 3: British fascism 1983-6 (Lobster 25) Part 4: British Fascism 1983-6 (II) (Lobster 26) The 1986 National Front Split (Lobster 29) Introduction In the first part of this essay, in Lobster 23, after reviewing the strategies adopted by significant British fascist parties in the period, … Read more
