Book Reviews

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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 […]

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A Bush and Botox World

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] et al never produced any evidence – hence the necessity of the novel, perhaps. At the Progreso site the page ‘About us’ includes an interview with Ricardo Alarcon de Quesda, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the National Assembly of the People’s Power.

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Post-war Nazi Networks and the United States

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] like Die Spinne with the collaboration of such eminences as Gustav Frupp von Bohlen and Vatican titular Bishop Alois Hudal, a few of these in situ anti- Communist ‘assets’ turned to narcotics and gun running. (77) Of these, a ringleader was the wanted Nazi mass murderer Klaus Barbie, alias Altmann, who prospered in Bolivia […]

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Kitson revisited

Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££

[…] Gangs and Counter-Gangs in 1960. (4) After Kenya, Kitson next saw active service in Malaya. He arrived in the country in January 1957, by which time the Communist insurgency had already been effectively defeated. Only a small number of isolated guerrilla bands were still at large. He regarded the army’s methods as ‘thorough rather […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] and British trade unions An important piece appeared in issue 9 of Perspectives. Peter E. Newell writes (albeit briefly) of his experience in the 1960s producing anti- communist prop-agenda for the journal of the Union of Post Office Workers, and his concomitant contact with personnel from IRIS, the CIA and the ICFTU. Perspectives is […]

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] Some of this material has appeared before. Part of the section on Common Cause and IRIS appeared in Lobster 19; much of the discussion of the ‘ communist threat’ in Lobster 24; some sections on the Gaitskellites and the Congress for Cultural Freedom appeared in Smear!; and a little piece on the post WW1 […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] Department (IRD).(4) IRD had grown from its origins in the 1940s to employ hundreds of people and spend nearly £1 million per year on anti-Soviet and anti- Communist propaganda. (5) The next year some of the personnel of another covert propaganda operation, this one run by the CIA, Forum World Features (FWF), began setting […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] month later, on 14 September, the Warren Commission stated that Oswald and his unit sailed into the South China Sea during a major crisis between Taiwan and Communist China. On 30 September, his unit set up base at P’ing-tung in North Taiwan. The unit then returned to Atsugi on 5 October. Oswald next spent […]

A fly’s eye view of the American war against Vietnam 40 years later: who won which war?

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] United Nations action. The Koreans living in the North, separated by US fiat from the rest of their country, including families, were decreed en masse to be communist non-persons and white Americans had been urged to fanatical hatred of communists, especially as non-Americans, the extermination of which became a self-evident and holy cause. Fantasy […]

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 […]

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