Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] they were the Round Table. The ‘radical right’ in America attacked the Round Table’s various front organisations in the late 1940s, thinking they were attacking the ‘international communist conspiracy’. (15) More recently both Nixon and Mrs Thatcher have explicitly set themselves up as the enemies of the foreign policy ‘establishment’ without ever showing the […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] decided they would impose their childish notions about the world onto the Agency and get it to produce ‘intelligence’ to support their conspiracy theories about the ‘ communist menace’. The very idea of attempting ‘the politics of the CIA’, let alone getting as close as Perry has done to actually bringing it off, is […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Thatcher’s role after she became Leader of the Opposition in 1975. She was surrounded by spooks and ex-spooks who believed, or pretended to believe, in the Global Communist Conspiracy. What did she believe and do while so many of those around her were muttering that Harold Wilson was a KGB agent? This question is […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] wiped out and unemployable in their fifties! William Clark I’ve noticed a number of highly placed academics who use Jacques and Hall as representations of the ‘ Communist’ approach as regards theories of the state, Patrick Dunleavy of the LSE would be a good example. This closes off a lot of debate about the […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
The American boomerang In America, Mayor Bloomberg has banned smoking in public places, especially in restaurants, inadvertently turning New York into an unlikely but almost spook-free zone. (1) American intelligence officers may not smoke, but some of their overseas contacts will. If meeting in the West, they will prefer to do so in London; or, … Read more
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] Soviet power blocs was due in part to a number of the early Zionist leaders also having good connections with the leadership of eastern European left and Communist parties. Much early military assistance for Israel, in the 1940s, came from Czechoslovakia. The murder of Bernadotte was organised by a small group that included Yitzhak […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] of the time. Kennedy, it should not be entirely forgotten, followed Eisenhower/Dulles. Think of all those brave ventures designed to show the world the liberal-progressive (if anti- communist) face of American imperialism: the Alliance for Progress; treaties with the Soviets; and ‘opening to the left in Italy’; the Peace Corps. Interesting moves. Futile in […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] McGovern wrote of this: ‘In early 1967, CIA analysts, led by a young analyst named Sam Adams demonstrated that there were more than twice as many Vietnamese Communist forces as the US military listed on its books. General William Westmoreland’s staff had reduced the numbers for political reasons. The general was adamant, so CIA […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] what the Service did. In part, this was to compensate for the image that had prevailed before. It was being portrayed as if it were run by fascist swine, which wasn’t the case.’ Much of this prevailing imagery, was, she believes, put about in the 1980s by ‘ communist sympathisers posing as conspiracy theorists’. Huh?
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
NB. Some of the statements about Colin Wallace in this article are false. Wallace did not set up the “school teacher named Horn”; nor was he having an affair with Horn’s wife. This article, remarkable at the time, was written before Dorril made contact with Colin Wallace. It is clear that there is a continuing … Read more
