Historical Notes: Anglo-American Conflict? UK becomes a US intelligence target

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] (Foreign Secretary, 1938-41). As a result of his discussion with Aberconway, Roberts claimed that ‘we now know that …… Chamberlain……was willing to go far further to appease Nazi Germany, in order to dissuade Hitler from invading Poland, than was ever supposed.’ It emerges that Chamberlain and Halifax authorised the businessmen to explore the possibility […]

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Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more

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Also Noticed

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

Intelligence and the War in Bosnia 1992-1995 Cees Wiebes Munster, Germany: Lit Verlag, Studies in Intelligence History, 2003 ISBN 3-8258-6347-6 p/b, 34.9 euros, $39.95 from Amazon. The publisher declined to send me a review copy but I read one chapter sent by e-mail from the author. This isn’t my field but it seems to me … Read more

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Operation Mind Control

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] to house those who resist the orders of mind-controlled troops…..’ Walter, come off it. This is nutzoid stuff, believed by white separatists, the ‘States’ Rights’ and neo- nazi crowd. They cannot build prisons fast enough to jail all the pot-growers and crackheads, never mind everyone else as well. The problem is, there is some […]

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Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’

Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] strategies, such as the (highly successful) UK air defence system and the (less successful) French Maginot line. The defeat of the second wave of offence cultists – Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan – after World War Two brought a new period of international institution-building. But this was put under immediate threat by nuclear weapons. With […]

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Spooks. Hollis. Tomlinson

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, Chapman … Read more

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The League of Empire Loyalists and the Defenders of the American Constitution

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] British neo-fascists and extreme loyalists. It contained men like John Tyndall, Martin Webster, Colin Jordan and John Bean, men who, after leaving Chesterton and indulging in the Nazi fantasy, returned (with the exception of Jordan) to provide the leadership of the National Front. Chesterton was the focal point of ‘respectability’ around which these men […]

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The View From The Bridge

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] anti-fascist movements have so far said and done – not-a-thing. What a surprise….. In April the Searchlight editorial announced that ‘three years of persistent campaigning against the nazi terror group Combat 18 may at last have paid off. Early in March police headquarters in London announced that a squad of officers who usually look […]

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Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] pp. 185-204. Office of Military Government, United States – responsible for the post-war administration of the US Army controlled areas of Germany and Berlin. Psychological warfare against Nazi Germany: the Sykewar Campaign, D-Day to VE-Day, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1971). Umaru Bah, ‘Daniel Lerner, cold war propaganda and US development communication research: an historical […]

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Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] objectives.’ The report notes that the Internet has played an important role in recent conflicts, and discusses its use by protest groups and activists, such as neo- nazi groups in Germany and the Zapatistas in Mexico. It claims the most active political groups using the Internet appear to be the San Francisco-based IGC (Institute […]

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