In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] is beyond the scope of this article, and may never be possible. Much of the activity of the anti-communist groups was clandestine: to fight the secret communist conspiracy — real or imaginary — they too operated in secret, set up cell structures. For example, there appears to be not a single academic article written […]

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] yet?’ The Sunday Herald, 30 November 2003. 13 Jefferson Morley , ‘The Good spy: how the quashing of an honest investigator led to 40 years of JFK conspiracy theories’, Washington Monthly, 35 (12) (December 2003), pp. 40-59. On-line at The Whitten/’Scelso’ testimony can be found at 14 Jefferson Morley, ‘Revelation 1963: for nearly four […]

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The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US-European Relations (Part I)

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] should aim for. See Robert Hewison, In Anger: British Culture in the Cold War, Oxford University Press/New York, 1981, pp. 60 – 62; Peter Coleman, The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe, Free Press/New York, 1989, p. 77. For 1959 the subsidy for Encounter […]

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The Men with the Guns

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] come off, neither as a thriller, nor as a roman a clef about the Kennedy assassination. But there is material of interest here for the student of conspiracy theories. For this, to my knowledge, is the first book which has included within it the basic thesis from The Gemstone File, an American samizdat which […]

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SAS: the Stiff Memoir

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] of the Rhodesian Central Intelligence Organisation (CI0). Stiff reveals, among other things, his involvement in a campaign of bombing and assassination in Zambia and in an abortive conspiracy to assassinate Robert Mugabe during the Lancaster House talks in London. After Aden, Stiff went on to help train the police in Kenya. (‘In spite of […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] As to why, there are two basic reasons. The first and most important was our refusal to be bullied by Wolf, Ray, and Schaap into publishing whacko- conspiracy theories and articles that served their agenda but failed to distinguish between facts and political fairy tales. ……Among those championed by one or another of the […]

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The Bilderberg Group and the project of European unification

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] outcome was quite interesting. In the ‘Lombard’ column of the Financial Times, C. Gordon Tether wrote on May 6 1975: ‘If the Bilderberg Group is not a conspiracy of some sort, it is conducted in such a way as to give a remarkably good imitation of one.’ In a column written almost a year […]

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The ‘Terrorist Threat’ in Britain

Lobster Issue 17 (1988) £££

[…] an IRA ‘alliance with the London based Black Liberation Front.‘ (p22) (Special Forces is edited by a former British Army officer, Peter Harclerode.) The themes of insidious conspiracy and subversion within have always been a part of the British Right’s ideological package, but in the past few years they have become much more explicit. […]

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The Coors Connection; How Coors Family Philanthropy Undermines Democratic Pluralism

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££

[…] senses the difference between good and bad parapolitical research hinges on this question. At its worst all the links are perceived as causal and you have vulgar conspiracy theories: ‘Its all the fault of…’. The rest of us fall somewhere short of that, and for the most part Bellant’s attribution of causality is restrained. […]

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Clippings Digest: August – November 1984

Lobster Issue 7 (1985) £££

[…] After arrest at Faslane base women held for 30 hours, 4 to a cell, continuous lighting, no bedding. (Guardian 1 September – letter) Peace protesters charged with conspiracy – first such charge for 20 years. (Times 1 September) (c) and computers Home Office doubts about value of computers. There is no evidence that they […]

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