Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££
[…] factions within the national security apparatus created by President Ronald Reagan and his advisors. Among the groups that have participated in these activities are the World Anti- Communist League (WACL), the Air Commando Association (ACA), the National Defense Council (NDC), Refugee Relief International (RRI), Civilian Military/Material Assistance (CMA), and Sun-Myung Moon’s cultic Unification Church […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] Bevin — and the Cabinet — accept the analysis of the Russia Committee, approving at the Cabinet meeting of January 5th 1948 Foreign Office proposals for anti- communist propaganda operations. (2) Where, in all this, we should now place Mayhew’s October ’47 proposal to Bevin is not clear. Was it a political ‘cover story’, […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] Cuban Consulate. The successive changes mirror the shift in the Mexico City CIA Station’s view of Oswald, from a ‘phase-one’ position (Oswald was part of a Cuban Communist conspiracy) to a more standard ‘phase-two’ position (Oswald was a lone nut). From other sources we learn that the DFS itself, as well as the CIA […]
Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
[…] World Peace Council and the rest of the well known fronts. The only important news so far has been the confirmation that the Soviets were also funding communist parties around the world — including the Communist Party of Great Britain. There really was ‘Moscow Gold’ in there after all, and KGB gold at that. […]
Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] Kathy Kadane which began, ‘The U.S. government played a significant role in one of the worst massacres of the century by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U. S. diplomats say.’ Perhaps 5,000 names were given to the […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] a number of official Bulgarian and Soviet publications, (16) as well as those produced by pro-Soviet Western communists, whether or nor they are actually members of official communist parties or front groups. (17) To say that all of these works seem designed mainly to exploit propaganda themes is not to say that all of […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] major sponsor, the United States, since it views these as the military bulwarks of a Western civilization that is locked in a life-or-death struggle with an implacable communist adversary. This view is also shared, albeit more reluctantly, by the conservative ‘national right’ elements within the aforementioned neo-fascist electoral parties. (37) In marked contrast, most […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
In their recent history of the Information Research Department (IRD), Paul Lashmar and James Oliver discuss George Orwell’s decision to collaborate with that organisation’s anti- Communist propaganda operations. They write that ‘George Orwell’s reputation as a left-wing icon took a body blow from which it may never recover when it was revealed in 1996 […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti- communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, and many more had joined the German armed forces and the Waffen SS. They refused to […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] last year by the many innuendoes linking him to the Cambridge spy ring of the 1930s. A typical example was Anthony Glees’ book on ‘British intelligence and Communist Subversion’: “Rothschild (was) remarkably intimate with people subsequently proven to be secret Communists, and Blunt was a major Communist mole”. (1) In a gesture of loyalty, […]
