Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the Third Reich. Such was the nature of its gyrations that Yockey could work both as a speech writer with a ‘considerable relationship’ to the viscerally anti- Communist Senator Joe McCarthy (and the network behind him which was seeking to invalidate the Nuremberg Trials), and, only months beforehand, as a courier for Czech intelligence. […]

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Scenes From an Afterlife: The Legacy of George Orwell

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] along the lines of sympathy to the Soviet Union or Red China. Those most hostile to Stalinism have tended to embrace Orwell, while those least hostile have tended to parrot Communist slanders from his believing the working class smelled to working for MI6. Scenes From An Afterlife is essential reading for anyone interested in Orwell.

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Pius XII, the Holocaust and the Cold War

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] the Hun’. The Allies were, of course, being told a different story. From 1943 onwards one of the Pope’s great fears was that there would be a Communist take-over in Italy. He relied first on the Germans to prevent this (in October 1943, the Vatican actually asked for more German police to be stationed […]

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The CIA and Mountbatten

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] having the best of both worlds. We traced the original leftist influence to a pal of his at Cambridge when they were undergraduates. This chap was a communist sympathiser and remained in close touch with Mountbatten for many years. …He was not the only left winger engaged in work of national importance by Mountbatten. […]

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

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] ‘A direct consequence of the reorganisation of functions in 1931 was that the agency which had been employed by S.I.S. and had furnished them with information about Communist matters inside this country came under the control of the Security Service, where it was later known as the M Section .’ So he was working […]

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Fascism and Parafascism

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] friends, was not as a fascist politician but as a parafascist mercenary asset, analogous to those German Freikorps leaders employed by German industrialists in 1919 to murder Communist activists, but unlike them, active in the transnational arena. Let us adumbrate this distinction. Fascism is a fully-fledged political movement, marked by a demagogy, a mass […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] the Coalition of the Willing Catering and Communication Corps. TUCETU The reward to Labour Party chairman John Reid was not long coming once Baghdad fell. The former Communist who turned strongly pro-American is now Robin Cook’s successor as Leader of the Commons. How pro-American is Reid? Remember that after Blair’s 1997 victory he joined […]

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The Case of Otto Skorzeny

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] personal friend, General Reinhard von Gehlen. First, Gehlen made a deal in 1946 with U.S. intelligence leaders like General Donovan and Allen Dulles, transferring his former anti- communist Nazi intelligence network to the future CIA. (The financial details were allegedly arranged by Walter Reid Wolf, a Citybank official on loan to CIA, who made […]

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The Activity, Grenada

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] by President Carter because he publicly opposed the withdrawal of some ground forces from South Korea. This may be explained by his membership of the World Anti- Communist League (WACL) which is heavily backed by the Korean Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. In 1980 Singlaub went to Central America with Reagan adviser and former […]

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The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] CIA cover is bad journalism’, I argued. ‘It omits this important aspect of The Paris Review – that it was part of the propaganda effort against the Communist and Soviet influence in Europe during the Cold War.’ I went on to explain what I had learned about Plimpton. There was no response. In a […]

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