Letter from America. Rand Corporation. Kennedys. Pentagon. Oklahoma. Garrisonia

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] enquiries to the author Wendell L. Minnick. The latest Unclassified (number 36) contains a grim but well researched piece by John Kelly about postwar CIA collaboration with Nazi doctors in radiation experiments in the US, and much other stuff of interest. Despite its frequent typos, Unclassified is a very valuable resource. . Honey, I […]

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] I have no access to German sources and would welcome additional information which would flesh out this skeletal account. During the thirties Brandt was a resilient anti- nazi activist, a member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) which sought to develop a popular front of all left-wing forces. Brandt’s enemies later “portrayed him as […]

Another Searchlight smear job

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995)

[…] would have been briefed with the same Searchlight rubbish as the Jewish Chronicle was unfounded. Indeed, Honigsbaum was scornful of Searchlight’s past role in playing up the nazi group Combat 18. The Searchlight smears reached Radio 4’s Sally Hardcastle who had contacted Open Eye, and it took a long meeting to get across to […]

Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – more … Read more

Western Goals (UK)

Lobster Issue 21 (1991)

[…] of Western Values and Civilization in Southern Africa’. He also attended a ‘select’ dinner in Whitehall for ‘Conservative Parliamentarians, Parliamentary candidates, councillors and party officials’. (The neo- nazi historian David Irving was spotted in the Houses of Parliament just before the Lords meeting, and also that night at a Monday Club Foreign Affairs Committee […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] catalogue of tapes I see: ‘The Fascist “3rd Position”‘, ‘The Far Right and Their Attempt to Co-opt Progressive Forces’, ‘KKK, The Fehme and the Founding of the Nazi Party’, and items on AIDS, WACL, CIA and drugs /mind control, assassinations etc etc. (This is roughly the same agenda as the late Mae Brussel but […]

The Jewish Holocaust: held captive by its remembrance or liberated by its lessons?

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009)

Israel, the Jews, and the West: The Fall and Rise of Antisemitism William D Rubinstein London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2008, £10.00 The Holocaust is Over; We Must Rise from its Ashes Avraham Burg New York: Palgrave Macmillan, £15.99 A Time To Speak Out: Independent Jewish Voices on Israel, Zionism and Jewish Identity Edited by … Read more

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

Kenneth De Courcy Kenneth de Courcy buffs will be pleased to know that they can now visit a website with some interesting further information about this maverick figure. The site can be found at < http:// www.pharo.com/intelligence >, and is run by the team which produced Double Standards, last year’s interesting study of the Hess … Read more

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]

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