SUCCESS: The CIA in Guatemala, 1954

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the CIA launched their next interventionist operation. It entailed replacing the Guatemalan left-wing, reformist leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzman – seen by many in the US as a Communist sympathiser – with a leader who would be more suitable to US interests strategically, politically and economically, the dictatorial General Carlos Castillo Armas. The effects of […]

The British Right – scratching the surface

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] suspect. 13 4 the Monday Club’s Journal, Monday World. As head of the British League for European Freedom Martin became the U.K. delegate to the World Anti Communist League (WACL). The parallels between the anti-semitic/neo-fascist activities in the U.K. and those in Australia are strikingly demonstrated in Dennis Freney’s Nazis Out of Uniform: Dangers […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Cuban Project, Operation Mongoose. That project was slowly being wound down in the early months of 1963, as Kennedy pursued an overt policy of reaching accommodation with communist Cuba. The precise date that Operation Mongoose really ended is still unclear. Judging by Kennedy’s change of course on improving relations with Cuba, it probably began […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] likely to send shock waves through the historiography of British Communism. Geoff Andrews is the author of the disappointing last volume of the ‘official’ history of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB), Endgames and New Times. In his new biography of James Klugmann, one of the Party’s leading intellectuals, he shows beyond any […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] focused as we were on his comments about the plotting against Harold Wilson, we didn’t initially notice the section on page 175 where he wrote that the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB)’s ‘Reuben Falber……had recently been made cashier of the Russian funds.’ Wright tells us that MI5 planned to burgle Falber’s flat in […]

The Lincoln-Kennedy Psyop

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Adventurism’ in Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 12, no. 3, 2009, pp. 389–427. JSTOR, .(Free sign-up required) 9 3 because all parts of the machine, in every communist nation, shared a clear ideology and therefore precisely the same dogma-dictated views of world events. It led Jackson to a very cynical idea of western freedom. […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] recently declassified files reveal.’ 1 That unit was a hitherto barely known branch of the Information Research Department (IRD). In 1951, a secret group named the Anti- Communist (Home) Committee was established, comprising representatives from the Foreign Office, Treasury, Home Office, Ministry of Defence, Ministry of Labour, and Security Service (MI5). Chaired by cabinet […]

The assassination of Martin Luther King: the paper trail to Memphis

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] and ‘Negroes’. Rather indiscreetly, Belmont blew Sullivan’s coverstory for the dossier. What Sullivan had actually created was a ‘dirt sheet’, intended to paint Dr King as a communist subversive intent on undermining the USA. In the extract below you can see that Belmont also remarked that Attorney-General Robert F Kennedy was going to be […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] writer in the Information Research Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. IRD had been set up at the onset of the Cold War to counter Soviet Communist Bloc propaganda, by monitoring, conducting research and providing unattributable briefings to journalists and others. 3. By the time I joined, IRD’s terms of reference had widened […]

Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

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[PDF file]: […] ascendant. This was also true in Britain – the U.S.’s partner in the post-war arrangements. The most important problem the U.S. had was in the U.K.(53) The Communist ‘threat’ A substantial section of the British secret state and its allies in the Conservative Party, business and the media believed, or found it useful to […]

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