Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££
Did Churchill reveal the pending Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor to Roosevelt two weeks before it happened? Below is what purports to a transcript of a telephone conversation recorded by the Germans during World War 2. If genuine, it shows, as has been alleged in the past, that Roosevelt was indeed warned of the impending … Read more
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] described as ‘Retired as Director, Central Intelligence Agency’, White is described as ‘Formerly attached to Foreign and Commonwealth Office’. For a fictional account of the new post- communist threat world of MI6, see Murray Smith’s The Stone Dancer (Michael Joseph, 1994). Former soldier Smith dedicates his book to a whole crew of spooks and […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] German military had co-operated with the Soviet Union. Hitler had been much more reliable than this. He had stopped the military co-operation, he had crushed the alleged Communist threat in Germany and was regarded by many influential figures in Britain as the best bastion civilisation could have against Soviet expansion. The author puts a […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] Cubans, Contras) to fund-raise by dope-dealing. This essay focuses on Anslinger as manipulator of Congress, media and the American public, rather than the content of his anti- communist bullshit or his acquiescence in drug-running into the US by the KMT. US cover-up of Nazi scientists Linda Hunt in Bulletin of Atomic Scientists April 1985 […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] States.(6) The role of the O’Brien organisation in Britain is similar to that of Marvin Leibman in the U.S.. The first Secretary General of the World Anti- Communist League when it was entirely a lobby group for Taiwan, Leibman began in the China Lobby, went on to the Tshombe lobby (American Committee to Aid […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
[…] threat in Europe, and rarely if ever criticized the Soviet bloc, some on the British right see Searchlight not as a Jewish or Israeli, but as a communist operation. The casual attribution of the labels like neo-nazi occasionally back-fires. In January the Sunday Express ran a piece headlined ‘Traitors: the ultra-right Tories who plotted […]
Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££
[…] 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident (which laid the foundation for a wider war), and its commanders included John K. Singlaub, later a figure in the World Anti- Communist League and Iran-contra affair. So mysterious was the group that even its name causes uncertainty: for cover purposes, it was the Studies and Observations Group, but […]
Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££
[…] struggle (and, presumably, give the Polish Stalinists time to organise the coup). Some Grey Wolves came to believe that if the infidel Pope would not inflame anti- communist revolt, it would be better if he was assassinated in a way that would make the KGB look like culprits. Poland would rise in fury, signalling […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezboll-ah, the … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Soviet Union as ‘the evil empire’. They thus became useful, minor foreign policy propaganda assets for the Reagan administration. Supporting any movement which was perceived as anti-socialist/ communist, the FCS became cheerleaders for whichever bunch of murderous thugs happened to be getting support from Washington: Renamo and the Contras come to mind. About Mozambique […]
