Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££
[…] “In most of the possible theatres of limited war…it must be accepted that it is at least improbable that we would be able to meet a major communist offensive in one of these areas without resorting to tactical nuclear weapons”… Official statements reflect a similar approach. The 1956 Defence White Paper remarked that while […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] Burke’s research shifted its focus and this book is the result: partly the original study of the pro-Soviet exile left in Britain and the formation of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and partly another go round the story of Soviet espionage in Britain, in which story Norwood is a minor element. Depending on […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
Inside Intelligence Anthony Cavendish Palu Publishing Ltd. 1987 Although many hundreds of books have been written on British Intelligence, very few have tackled post-war intelligence in any kind of depth or with any degree of reliability. By contrast, we tend to believe that we know quite a lot about the workings of the CIA. But […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] role in establishing the covert American role in Italian politics just after the war. The USA destroyed Italian democracy in order to save it (from the Italian Communist Party). As the major media celebrate the “triumph of the West’, Willan’s book shows that the USA’s only commitment is to US capital. Though a commonplace […]
Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££
[…] from the endless recycling of anarchy’s glorious past. The last two issues have been excellent, with hard original research on the Masons, the SAS, the World Anti- Communist League, etc. Available from the address above @ 50p plus postage. Author Jonathan Bloch has been refused permanent residence in Britain. A South African refugee, he […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££
Dick Russell Carroll and Graf, New York, 1992 This is one of the most interesting JFK assassination books to have emerged from the movie and 30th anniversary tie-in crop. Given the vast amount of attention paid to Gerald Posner’s ‘Oswald did it after all!’ apologia, Case Closed, it is unfortunate that Russell’s book still hasn’t … Read more
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] happening. In the light of current knowledge, the Cambridge spy Ring probably emerged gradually from an already existing Comintern operation/grouping, one in which Maurice Dobb, the openly Communist Cambridge academic, mentioned by Riley and then dismissed, was a central figure. Its initiator was Richard Sorge,on a trip to England in 1929. He’d been on […]
