In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] Peter Dolder. The following August, C. C. Van Den Heuvel, a civil servant in the Dutch Ministry of Internal Affairs, – an officer of the Dutch Internal Security Service (the BVD) – set up in The Hague a foundation for research into human ecology. This appears to have been a front organisation: it soon […]

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Thinking about the Falklands

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[…] series of diplomatic and strategic moves which were happening in the South Atlantic before and at the time of the Falklands War. “The Politics of South Atlantic Security: a survey of proposals for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation” looked at the task of “relating western concerns for South Atlantic security to the interests and […]

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Spinning the European Union: pro-European propaganda campaigns in the British media

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

See note (1) This article explores the three pro-European Union propaganda campaigns mounted to date: in 1962-63 to secure public support following Britain’s first application to join the EU; in 1970-71 to prepare the public for accession; and in 1974-75 to ensure continued EU membership in the 1975 Referendum. For simplicity, the term European Union … Read more

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] A pdf version of a 1992 print book containing many declassified documents on the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, including many important CIA documents on this event. National Security Archive The National Security Agency Declassified http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB23/index.html Electronic Briefing Book on the NSA’s foundation and management, providing 15 original documents dating from 1948 to 1998, including: […]

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The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] whose ramifications go well beyond Germany’s borders. His evidence was unassailable. From 1957 to 1970 Langemann was one of the BND’s highest ranking officers. In.1972 he was security chief for the Munich Olympics before being purged by the SPD government for being too close to Franz Josef Strauss’ Christian Social Union party. Langemann then […]

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Robert Kennedy and the Middle East connection

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] foreign affairs’ () and driven by anti-communism and a passionate Zionism. Hounam suggests there was a very tight loop of Johnson confidants – notably Walt Rostow (National Security Advisor), neo-con godfather, Democratic Senator Henry ‘Scoop’ Jackson, Arthur Goldberg (UN Ambassador), the mysterious movie moguls Mathilde and Arthur Krim and Israeli Deputy ambassador, Eppie Evron […]

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Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] Even more interesting to me is the account given by ‘Special Branch’ of the thinking of our secret state personnel. “Stalker was becoming a pain to the security agencies, tantamount to a boil on the bum. The general consensus of opinion was that he had to be stopped. The most expedient treatment for a […]

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Curried Knight: Maxwell Knight and the MI5 in-house history

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

I have been scrutinising in some detail the Curry Report, The Security Service: its problems and organisational adjustments 1908-1945 –– the in-house history of MI5 which was written by John Court (‘Jack’) Curry (1887-?), a senior MI5 officer, during 1944-6. In so doing I have solved one of the great mysteries about Maxwell Knight. […]

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Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] which left little time for the authorities to adequately investigate the allegations – an excuse as feeble as that other establishment cop-out, “in the interests of National Security”. George Terry actually had little to do with the investigation which was carried out by two of his former subordinates: Chief Supt. Gordon Harrison and Chief […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] evidence, the most probable cause of Olsen’s death was homicide and not suicide.(2) This new information suggests that Frank Olsen was murdered because he was considered a security risk to the CIA’s highly sensitive and top secret mind control programmes. The Nuremberg trials revealed how far Nazi Germany had gone in the development of […]

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