Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

DEEP BLACK: the secrets of space espionage William E. Burrows, Bantam Press, 1988 P. N. Rogers The National Reconnaissance Office is the only ‘black’ US intelligence agency remaining. Formed in 1960, the US only conceded officially that they had reconnaissance satellites twelve years later, and to this day maintain that these are the responsibility of … Read more

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Lying about Iraq

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 […]

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Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] the Czarevitch. Others who supported Goleniewski’s lineage included the John Birch Society (through its journal American Opinion), the Philadelphia-based lay Catholic Order of the Carmelites (an anti- communist organisation), the conservative journalist Guy Richards, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, and the Sovereign Order of St. John of […]

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Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] in late 1956 on orders from William Casey……..Carone said that Paine was approached by the CIA to find and recruit an individual that (sic) was expendable, with communist ties and some type of anti-American background. Carone said that when Ruth Paine found the individual, she notified her CIA contact, identified as George de Morenschild, […]

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Friends of the British Secret State

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] trying to ingratiate himself with Neave in order to get to Neave’s friend Lt.Col. Brush the head of Down Orange Welfare. Neave had much better contacts on Communist infiltration in Northern Ireland than Colin Wallace such as his links, that went back to his post-war work, with the security services. Are the British (mainland) […]

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The Rise of Political Lying

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Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££

[…] still felt in the 1980s) when the Tory right, briefed by a section of the British spooks, believed that the Labour Party and the unions were a Communist conspiracy and were thus ‘a legitimate target’. Oborne’s idea of ‘political’ simply does not encompass activities by the state, let alone the secret state. In one […]

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A Note on MRA, CIA and L. Ron. Hubbard

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] slowly, and didn’t show results until some years later when a seer we planted on President Nkrumah of Ghana persuaded him to accept an invitation to visit Communist China so that he would be out of the country when our boy, General ‘Uncle Arthur’ Ankrah, staged his coup d’etat, and some months later when […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] into the ‘convenient deaths’ category. Arthur Gavshon (Obituary, Guardian 31 July 1995). Journalist, author, friend of this journal. Ian Greig (Obituary Glasgow Herald 4 November 1995). Anti- communist writer and propagandist; active in the Monday Club and Foreign Affairs Research Institute. Although I am still unclear of his precise role, I think he was […]

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Who paid the piper? The CIA and the cultural cold war

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] has dug up mountains of new detail, and vividly conveys the preposterous arrogance of the Ivy League, button-down, white Americans who were trying to regulate the non- communist world in the 1950s. In his essay on the CCF in this issue, Giles Scott-Smith argues that Saunders – like almost everyone else who has written […]

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Stalin’s granny

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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 […]

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