Wallace etc

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] foreign press with titillating stories. Sometimes, for the benefit of American correspondents, “captured documents” which they were not allowed to see confirmed that EOKA was modelled on communist lines and that an increasing number of young Communists were joining it. The official introduction of sex into the Cyprus problem was another product of this […]

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Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti- Communist paranoia, as most thought at the time, or did the Swedes have something? A Good Companion? The recently published Oxford Companion to World War Two (Oxford, […]

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British Spooks “Who’s Who” part 2

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] AFRICAN CAMPAIGN, NORTH AFRICA, ITALY, FRANCE 1945-74 MP (CON) 1953 JT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS. HEAD OF COMMITTEE LOOKING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AGAINST COMMUNIST REGIMES 1954 PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SEC FOR COMMONWEALTH RELATIONS 1947-50 CHAIRMAN BRITISH EMPIRES PRODUCERS ORGANISATION 1962-64 CONSERVATIVE COMMONWEALTH COUNSELLOR DONELLY, MAJOR FRANK MI6 (B) 1946 DEPT Q […]

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Mob Rule. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America 1947-2000

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Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££

[…] connection with narcotics. He was later a key figure in covering up Chiang Kai-sheck’s involvement in the heroin traffic from Asia to the US, publicly blaming the Communist Chinese instead. (He also recruited Jack Ruby as an informant in Chicago in the late forties before Ruby moved to Dallas.) Kefauver’s third mistake, his key […]

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MISC.: Wapping. Gordiefsky. October Surprise. Stone’s JFK. Martin Luther King

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] the historian James A. Nathan. This, says Kwitney, ‘contained sensational assertions’. Kwitney called Nathan to ‘seek documentation’ but ‘his only documentation ….was press clippings, including some from communist and other strongly partisan and unreliable publications, and from small-publication journalists I knew to be unreliable….. he had not tried to talk to the people involved […]

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The crony capitalists: a fond farewell to some regular guys?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] extracted from the victims of the Holocaust), and the welcome given to hundreds and possibly thousands of Nazi war criminals into the U.S. to aid the anti- communist effort. Two prominent supporters of this post-war approach were well placed to keep the issue of the Bush family’s involvement as low key as possible. Brothers […]

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…MI5 goes on forever

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] were running students who pretended to be left-wing to attract recruiters – and presumably without success, since not a whisper of this has hitherto appeared. No more communist threat? If the MI5 brochure offers a very thing version of the organisation’s history, it does answer the question, ‘How have they responded to the end […]

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JFK and joint US-Soviet space exploration

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] US to go to the Moon together would require a breaking down of a good many of the barriers of suspicion and distrust which exist between the Communist world and ourselves. There is no evidence to suggest that those barriers will come down.” ‘ (Aviation Week, 30 September 1963, p.27) ‘Letters exchanged between President […]

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Kitson, Kincora and counter-insurgency in Northern Ireland

Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££

[…] (see flag “F”) would tend to support only part of such a claim. There are also a number of inconsistencies: McGrath would appear to be strongly anti- communist and anti-UVF and this conflicts with the document’s views on links with Tommy Herron, Ernie ‘Duke’ Elliot, ‘The Ulster Citizens Army” etc. Various public and political […]

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The once and future king?

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] this sect publicly called themselves the Chartists, thus promoting a clear historical connection with the Labour and trade union movement. Their real name, however, was the Revolutionary Communist League and they despised the Labour Party.(7) They had decided to ‘enter’ the Labour Party and work within it to seize political power. Like all ‘entryists’ […]

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