Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] the covert policy.’ In other words Marshall wanted a covert capability outside of his department but still answerable to his guidance. In the aftermath of the Czech coup (the Czechs having been forced to decline Marshall Aid by the USSR the year before), covert operations were further coordinated with the creation of the Office […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Axis Tripartite Pact, Ribbentrop had assured Yugoslavia that Germany would respect its sovereignty and territorial integrity. On March 27, 1941, he attended the meeting, held after the coup d’état in Yugoslavia, at which plans were made to carry out Hitler’s announced intention to destroy Yugoslavia.’ (4) There was also limited evidence against Ribbentrop in […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] institutions of popular power and workers control, and repressing the revolutionary left. The moment of realisation occurred in May 1937 in Barcelona when the Communists staged their coup against anarchist control of the city. Up to then Orwell had been determined to transfer from the POUM militia to the Communist-controlled International Brigades. Now he […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] hope to desperate men. Moscow promised not to invade Poland if the Church could dampen the struggle (and, presumably, give the Polish Stalinists time to organise the coup). Some Grey Wolves came to believe that if the infidel Pope would not inflame anti-communist revolt, it would be better if he was assassinated in a […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] he could implement detente with Castro and reform the Agency in the wake of the Bay of Pigs disaster. The Warren Commission attempted to conceal this treasonous coup behind the lone gunman theory but the truth was smoked out by New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison in his abortive prosecution of Clay Shaw. Garrison was […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] Foundation Press, 1997), 35-53 S. Dubow, Colonial nationalism, the Milner Kindergarten and the rise of South Africanism , History Workshop Journal, 43 (1997), 53-85 The Lloyd George Coup, December 1916 Lloyd George became Prime Minister in 1916, but he was put in office by the Milner Group, as is obvious to anyone (except, of […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] and this spiel of his on Chile looks very much like an intelligence briefing – maybe even one of those distributed at the time of the Chile coup when Neil was working for the Economist, a regular outlet for IRD briefings. Tom Spencer MEP, RIP About a month before the political demise of the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Then Kennedy had to face down the military over Cuba. No wonder Kennedy let John Frankenheimer use the White House to shoot his movie about a military coup, 7 Days in May. Finally: readers of a delicate ideological disposition should note that Pepper is a gloriously unreconstructed American lefty and there are a couple […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] was trying to frame Lansbury for treason, Churchill was himself coming close ‘to flirting with treason’. Churchill appeared to endorse Sir Henry Wilson’s fantasies about a military coup to overthrow Lloyd George and establish a government committed to a crusade against Bolshevism. While he backed away from Wilson’s intrigues, what is significant is that […]
Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. This essay leads to the same conclusions as Michael Klare’s study for the Washington-based Institute of Policy Studies: if we are to protect our freedoms and liberties from the inflow of barbarism [parafascism] from dictators abroad, we must act now to halt the export of repression to such regimes. … Read more
