Clippings Digest

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] are the rules governing who can be sacked/suspended from Civil Service for political activities. Old regulations allowed a Minister to suspend a member of a ‘fascist or communist organisation’. Under new rules a minister can suspend anyone who is or has been in a “subversive group acknowledged as such by the minister, whose aims […]

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Combat 18 and MI5: some background notes

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] initial aim was to provide strong arm defensive and then offensive protection for the far right, the first publicly admitted ‘action’ being an incendiary attack on a Communist Party premises in March 1992.(2) The gap between the events that were the catalyst (including a failed November 1991 Fred Leuchter meeting in London), and the […]

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The 1975 Referendum on Europe

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] had learned the Soviet Unions had plans to invade Western Europe and these would be carried out once the trade unions in Western Europe led by a Communist Fifth Column had fomented widespread strikes to prevent the invasion being resisted.’ Some years ago Body made claims about the CIA involvement in the campaign but, […]

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The Kincora scandal and related subjects

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] — Frank Doherty, Sunday News, 22 April 1984, p. 9. Paisley’s papist smoke screens — John Carey, Sunday World, 2 December 1984, pp. 6-7. Kincora — Irish Communist, (a) November 1984, pp. 1- 18; (b) December 1984, pp.7-16. Kincora ‘leak’ man to miss inquiry — Sunday World, 16 December 1984, p. 8. Document claims […]

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John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] the cultivation of home industries, urban renewal and agricultural protection.(7) ‘National Self-Sufficiency’ has itself been the victim of misunderstanding. It was not a flirtation with ‘fascist or communist economics’.(8) It was not an aberration provoked by despair at the failure of the 1933 World Economic Conference to produce a co-ordinated global response to the […]

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From roll back to blowback

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] postwar policies of the Soviet Union and the United States than most Americans are willing recognise.’ (p.21) ‘At about the same time in February 1948 when the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was carrying out a coup d’état in Prague, rightwing forces in the southern half of divided Korea, then under the control of the […]

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Churchill and The Focus

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] letter of invitation, ‘hold meetings all over the country, at which the municipal authority usually presides, and socialists, Liberals and Tories advocate organised resistance to Nazi and communist propaganda. The League of Nations Union and the New Commonwealth, of which I am President, are both closely associated and many of our meetings are held […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 9 (1985) £££

[…] policy there: “Heath’s men set about dealing with the unrest among the natives by the classic Imperial methods which had worked so well in Malaya against the Communist guerillas – a co-ordinated intelligence drive, a big propaganda campaign, mass round-ups of suspects, attacks on guerillas’ arms-supplies and cross-border sanctuaries – and then, if all […]

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Someone would have talked

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Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] to suggest that the anti-Castro Cubans – with organised crime and/or CIA links – planned to kill JFK, and leave a dead Oswald framed as a pro-Castro, communist assassin, triggering another US invasion of Cuba and scuppering JFK’s plans to do a deal with Castro. This is terribly plausible, a good hypothesis, and Hancock […]

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The Third Secret: the CIA, Solidarity and the KGB’s plot to kill the Pope

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] – the Polish Pope – was told the ‘third secret’ of the Fatima revelations; and that this ‘third secret’ spoke of his assassination and suggested an anti- communist crusade. West reproduces the text of this on p.5 – it was first released onto the Vatican’s Web site! – and there is nothing in there […]

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