Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] rights campaigners, ecowarriors, roads protesters – to help replace the domestic Soviet ‘threat’. If Swampy and his chums didn’t quite make up for the loss of the Communist Party’s Industrial Department, they might help ensure that careers and pensions – the really important things, after all – stayed on track. The British security and […]

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Spooks – U.S.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] (Schlesinger and Kinzer, London 1982) makes it very clear that U.F.Co. launched a massive PR campaign in the US to persuade so-called “policy makers” of the “ communist threat” to Guatemala. Without that campaign those “geopolitical considerations” would never have been perceived. And then as now, “geopolitical considerations” is merely a euphemism for “communist […]

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Web update

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] on all sides of the Cold War, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from previously inaccessible sources in the former Communist bloc. This web site is the latest initiative taken by CWIHP to make available these docments.’ The CWIHP Virtual Library is a searchable collection of documents, […]

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Obituaries: Donald Allen & Reuben Falber

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] for the World Wildlife Fund. Reuben Falber An obituary of Reuben Falber appeared in the The Independent 31 May 2006. Falber had been the contact between the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Soviet Embassy in London. Falber collected and disbursed the Soviet government’s secret subsidies to the CPGB from 1958 onwards. […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] India (Natraj Publishers, Dehra Dun) in 1992. (Thanks to MK for this.) But what does this signify? Briefly…. Christine Keeler now claiming that Stephen Ward was a communist, and that she ‘delivered stuff’ to the Russian Embassy. (Independent, 4 November). Assuming this version to be the truth, don’t I remember Peter Wright telling us […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] the right and the state. But, boy, some of it is hard work. There is a 26-page article with the subtitle, ‘The Curious Case of the New Communist Party, Searchlight and the Nazi honeytrap….(run by a hermaphrodite)’, which is all but unintelligible to me because, as with his pamphlets, the information is obscured by […]

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Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-92

Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] industry moving in the crisis… the instant dismissal from all posts in the trade union movement of individuals with a record of past or present membership of Communist organisations’. (2) Later in the year, when coup speculation was more intense, the NF made clear that theirs was no ‘doctrinaire support of parliamentary government as […]

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In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the Prosecution to present a list of prejudicial points and assertions which undermined my credibility and character in the jury’s eyes: I was a member of the Communist Party in the early 1970s. Oshchenko was a KGB officer in London in the 1970s and had defected in 1992. Oshchenko recruited me as a KGB […]

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Listen, Marxist

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] progress – is political. They argue that the distinction between left and right isn’t meaningful any more. They want to reclaim the humanist, libertarian mantle from the communist movement of old. They hate consensus, have no desire to make common cause and love to provoke what they see as the stagnant agenda of liberal […]

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Drugs, oil and war

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] an important role in both. 11To this day the money from Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church, an offspring of the KCIA and the related Asian People’s Anti- Communist League (APACL, later the World Anti-Communist League or WACL), continues to subsidise the right-wing Washington Times. 12 Two deeper factors reinforce the continuity sketched in the […]

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