View from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] He is In this column in Lobster 87 I mentioned two of his recent essays which are online. They are ‘UK “Black” Productions: Forgeries, Fake Groups, and Propaganda, 1951–1977’ at and ‘The Information Research Department, Unattributable Propaganda, and Northern Ireland: Promising Salvation but Ending in Failure?’ at 1 . 2 1 self-described there as […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] influence the Communist Party contributed by occasionally boasting of its influence on the Labour Party left; 9 On IRD see Paul Lasmar and James Oliver, Britain’s Secret Propaganda War 1948-77 (Stroud, Gloucester: Sutton, 1998). On some of the American influences see Hugh Wilford, The CIA, the British Left and the Cold War (London: Frank […]

L0b 92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] as “the 6I” or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and […]

92 Bridge copy

Lobster Issue

[…] as “the 6I” or “Sixth International”. This network operated as a private sector version of the Information Research Department (IRD), a Foreign Office unit focused on anticommunist propaganda. • The Pinay Circle: Lobster #17 (1988) discussed Crozier’s involvement with the “Pinay Circle” (or Cercle), a private intelligence gathering group connected to James Goldsmith and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019)

[PDF file]: […] his blog Craig Murray refers to Bellingcat thus: ‘Unlike our adversaries including the Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat, the Atlantic Council and hundreds of other warmongering propaganda operations. . .’ 15 One of their reports begins thus: ‘A sophisticated phishing campaign targeting Bellingcat and other Russia-focused journalists. . .’ (emphasis added) or 16 […]

The UK and the coup in Chile, 1973

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] congenial external environment. Its outline became clear during the early 1970s, when a programme for international economic reform See Kevin John McEvoy, ‘Before the rubble: Britain’s secret propaganda offensive in Chile (1960-1973)’, Contemporary British History, Volume 35 (2021), p. 603. Historians of modern Chile and the covert operations of the British state have good […]

AFRICOM, NATO and the EU

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] developed into colonies between the 17th and 20th centuries. The deep imperial interests, complex trade associations, and huge profits (potential or actual) meant that ‘postcolonialism’ – a propaganda word for reconstituted colonialism – was never going run smoothly, particularly in the face of rising Soviet influence in Ethiopia, Somalia, Angola, and elsewhere in the […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] understands the motive behind this deployment. 5G is a compartmentalized weapons deployment masquerading as a benign technological advance for enhanced communications and faster downloads. The globalist false propaganda falls away with one simple undisputed fact: their PCR test patent for Covid-19, which was filed in 2015, was never able to identify a live virus, […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] certainly not the naïve literateur, taken advantage of by Cold Warriors, that he presented himself as. Spender was, in fact, ‘well integrated with the British Cold War propaganda effort’. Which brings us to MacColl, Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop. The released Theatre Workshop file, covering the years from 1951 to 1960, has some 250 […]

View from Bridge 87

Lobster Issue

[…] understands the motive behind this deployment. 5G is a compartmentalized weapons deployment masquerading as a benign technological advance for enhanced communications and faster downloads. The globalist false propaganda falls away with one simple undisputed fact: their PCR test patent for Covid-19, which was filed in 2015, was never able to identify a live See […]

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