Did the CIA sink a ship-load of Leyland buses in the Thames?

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] that Castro had signed a further option with Leyland to buy a thousand buses in a larger 20 million dollar deal. The newly-elected British prime minister, Harold Wilson, refused to give in to American pressure and block the Leyland deal. The US Commerce Secretary, Luther Hodges, declared publicly and ominously: ‘I don’t like it […]

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Politics and Paranoia

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Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]

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Halliburton: Winning the Brown and Root Way

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] Resources, which is chaired by former Deputy Secretary of Energy, William H. White; others with interests are former Secretary of State James Baker III; former Congressman Charles Wilson, former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Armitage and Major General Richard Secord, who was described as the ‘chief covert operative’ for Colonel Oliver North in the […]

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Books and Pamphlets

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it is worth getting. (How effective a piece of satire, and how good a piece of […]

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Iraq

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] is it ‘unimaginable’ not to support the US? It used not to be ‘unimaginable’. Edward Heath declined to support the US in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight with the US in Vietnam. The US was going to war and fabricated a pretext, as it has done many […]

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Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] later. Participating in both and chairing the second was Lord Chalfont, the former Times defence correspondent Alun Gwynne Jones who was a defence minister in the 1964 Wilson government before becoming a fierce Cold War propagandist. Chalfont, a doughty defender of apartheid South Africa, became chairman of the UK wing of the Committee for […]

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Weapons of Mass Deception and Regime Unchanged

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] and trust and which could be relied upon 16 There is a section on MRA in Gerth (2023). New Statesman, 12 January 1952. See also H. H. Wilson, ‘Techniques of Pressure – AntiNationalisation Propaganda’ in Public Opinion Quarterly, Summer 1951. Edwards’ obituary in The Independent, 25 June 1990 noted that he had been a […]

Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££
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[PDF file]: […] communist control were made at the time, I have seen no evidence to support this view. The second occasion was during the 1966 seamen’s strike when Harold Wilson made his notorious comments in the House of Commons about the role of the CPGB in the strike, and actually named CPGB members said to be […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££
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[PDF file]: […] has staged a comeback which would be the envy of any child movie star reaching maturity.’ – Professor Ira Scott, 1969 (4) Edward Heath, who succeeded Harold Wilson as Prime Minister in 1970, is conventionally viewed as someone who began as ‘Selsdon Man’, a prototype of the later Thatcher Tory Party, then made his […]

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