[…] and partly the whole Cambridge “moles’ saga from the point of view of those who were recruiting and running them. The result is a heavy shower of new bits of information. So, for example, if you ever wondered how much the Soviet Union was paying Guy Burgess to spy in the 1930s, or how […]
[…] in mind whenever reading this book. It is quite fair to say that everything I read or see about developments in Northern Ireland has been given a new perspective. It is one that shows conclusively that the British government colluded with the murder of lawyers sympathetic to the republican cause in that province. Their […]
[…] adversary is inherent to the British approach.’ In his interesting short history of anthropology’s relationship to US overt and covert foreign policy in the 20th century, McFate notes that the US military’s need of anthropologists is stymied somewhat by the state of American anthropology after the Vietnam War. ‘Rejecting anthropology’s status as the handmaiden […]
[…] morals and sapping the nation’s ability to see the war through to a grim conclusion. Allen was an easy target, she had once modelled a sex manual for women. She rose to the bait and sued. Hoare describes the trial, which lasted for 7 days in May and June 1918, with great thoroughness. It […]
[…] the World Federation of Trade Unions split, it was bound to split and the blame lies at the Soviet door. It is an attractive thesis, a nice, new revisionist synthesis — and it might even be true. It’s just that MacShane hasn’t really adequately described the theses he is attacking: we get a line […]
[…] one that CCS planned ‘left wing’ riots and the assassination of Nixon for the Republican Convention of 1972, apparently in the hope of installing Vice President Ag new as some kind of dictator. Although this story is quite widely accepted among the US conspiracy buffs, the exact status it has remains unclear to me. […]
[…] the CIA to use the available information to make good decisions. The third is the innocence of Kahin himself. Kahin is described in the foreword as a New Deal liberal, who saw himself as a man of the left, but this didn’t prepare him for the reality of US foreign policy. I wanted this […]
[…] of shortage of space. Since writing it, Teacher has been reading some of the work of Roger Faligot, the French writer on intelligence matters. On Kelly, Teacher notes that in Faligot’s recent La Piscine, Faligot states: Otto Schlutter had supplied weapons to the FLN during the Algerian war which drew the attention of the […]
[…] and occasional Lobster contributor, died around 16 June 2001. I never entirely trusted Morris: he gossiped to me about things he should have kept to himself and for the most part I blanked his questions about Lobster and the people I was talking to. Under a pseudonym Morris wrote a couple of prescient articles […]
[…] before this land was conquered by Arabs’ – her paraphrase of that most ridiculous of all arguments, ‘We were here first: it says so in The Book’. Notes A much more detailed version of this story has been written by Lobster contributor Dr Jeffrey Bale which will appear in the US. This gets pretty […]
