[…] of the information contained in Blum. Where Blum is concerned with the covert operations of the CIA, the academic student shies away from that – it’s bad for careers – and concentrates on the CIA’s intelligence-gathering activities. There is, of course, nothing in here on subjects like the Agency’s role in the death squad […]
[…] for almost half a century was the subject of a 1994 PhD thesis by Thomas Mahl, 48 Land, which became his 1999 book, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44. (US: Brasseys, 1999). Notes I have read the PhD but not the book and assume the two are basically the same.
[…] the Soviet/USSR apologisms, but at the cost of £1.00, this publication represents astonishing value for money. In case your ordinary bookshop can’t get it the publisher is: Harney and Jones, 119 Falcon Road, London SW11. The author, Denver Walker, is a member of the Communist Party and a journalist with “The New Worker”. John Clayton
[…] war? It’s all the fault of the unions. The British economy’s structural bias towards overseas investment? Not a word. Impact of the City on Tory economic policy? Not a word. It doesn’t matter. This has some great anecdotes, some genuinely new information, and some wonderful, unwitting self-revelation by a spokesperson for the Thatcherite myth. RR
[…] by the government in late 1949, giving such as evidence as it had for its communist conspiracy thesis, he does not discuss its contents. Wonder why not? Notes 1 This subject was touched on in my ‘Moscow gold: the “Communist threat” in post-war Britain’ in Lobster 25, and again in the special issue, advertised […]
[…] them, as Burke implies? There certainly were some among the U.S. Air Force, notably Curtis LeMay, who wanted to obliterate the Soviet Union in the early 1950s.(3) Notes No, I am not suggesting that Knightley is an MI5 asset. Knightley has been a pain in the spooks’ posterior for 40 years. In Stanley Kubrick’s […]
[…] about this: we’re not making enough money and hope that our readers will not be put off. (The original Lobster was 16 pages and cost 50p. 75p for 32 pages still seems reasonable value). As the list of shops on the rear cover shows our distribution is slowly expanding – due entirely to the […]
[…] House of Commons. They were Anglophiles and they were very upset at the way their agency was going to interfere in the referendum campaign. They said a new head of station was going to be appointed who was not a normal CIA man, he was well known in the federalist movement and they were […]
Parish Notices Thanks for material since the last Lobster to, Robin Whittaker (clipper-in-chief), Jane Affleck, Anthony Carew, Harry Irwin, Harlan Girard, Steve Wright and John Booth. Corrections I get surprisingly few anonymous or abusive letters but I got a corker after Lobster 34. The anonymous and abusive author pointed out that in my review […]
[…] the terms of entry and even drafted speeches for pro-European Labour frontbenchers to deliver at their party conference. The unit was told in September 1970 of its new duties in a five-page memo by Anthony Royle, a Foreign Office minister, after discussions with Geoffrey Rippon, the Europe Minister, and Willie Whitelaw, the Cabinet fixer […]
