Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] no run-of-the-mill intelligence officer. His father-in-law was Alexander Gorkin, Chairman of the Soviet Supreme Court. It is also believed that Ivanov played a prominent role in Nasser’s coup in Egypt. According to Nigel West (15) he had been identified by ‘D’ branch as an intelligence officer when he first arrived in London on the […]

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The politics of the organic movement – an overvie

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] had rebelled against Eve Balfour and her aristocratic cronies, established the more vigorous and practical organisations, the Organic Growers Association and British Organic Farmers; and staged a coup within the Soil Association which revitalised it and made it more relevant to the late-twentieth century. Some of the leading figures – Peter Segger and Dr. […]

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A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when a computer we programmed to make astrological computations induced President Sukarno of Indonesia to make various moves which suited our […]

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The British Right

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] credited with spending millions of dollars on a Fijian grassroots cultural revival which has been a thin cover for the Tankei movement.” (US Involvement in the Fiji coup d’etat in Lobster 14) IDU is producing a magazine, Democracy International (Suite 48, Westminster Palace Garden, London SWIP IRR). The pilot issue appeared a few months […]

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Bean counters and empire

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] tribal insurgents. This took place against a backdrop of President Nasser announcing the union of Egypt with Syria (February 1958) and Yemen (March 1958) and a pro-Egyptian coup in Iraq (14 July 1958). The latter event resulted in a speedy US intervention in Lebanon (15 July) and a similar British operation in Jordan (17 […]

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The Man Who Knew Too Much

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] NY 14063, USA. According to Jules Archer’s book The Plot To Seize The White House (Hawthorn, NY, 1973), General McArthur was the first choice of a right-wing coup plot hatched by J.P. Morgan and other U.S.industrialists (DuPonts, Rockefellers and Mellons among them) who opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt. McArthur was President Roosevelt’s Military Chief of […]

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Spooks – U.K.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

2. Freedom and the Security Services – a Labour Party Discussion Document (£1.50 plus postage from The Labour Party, 150 Walworth Road, London, SE17 1JT) With this the Labour Party has taken a significant step towards the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held … Read more

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

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] investment came from Harvard University’s endowment fund, on whose board of directors sat an old Bush family friend, Robert Stone Jnr. Then in 1990 came Harken’s biggest coup – winning a Bahrain deal against bids from oil giants Amoco and Chevron. This was despite the fact that Harken had never been engaged in international […]

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Demos – fashionable ideas and the rule of the few

Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Secretary of the Hanson Group, archetypical at the time of predatory capitalism, agreed to sit on the Advisory Board. This was, quite rightly, regarded as a major coup. Adam Lury, a new wave (of the day) advertising executive and now on the Foreign Policy Centre board, and Bob Tyrrell of the Henley Centre (part […]

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Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America, and, The Haunted Wood

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] seems profoundly unlikely to me. These books, with their massive documentation, constitute proof. On the other hand, this is also the story of the most spectacular intelligence coup of the twentieth century. In the 1930s, largely using CPUSA members or sympathisers, the Soviet Union built networks such that by the war’s beginning it had […]

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