British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Fasts imprisoned for a political stand. Nevertheless, despite the absence of any Red Scare, extensive surveillance still took place. Smith discusses MI5 policy with regard to the Communist Party in the mid-1930s: ‘….all aspects of the policy of the CPGB were being “carefully followed up”, while routine checks on correspondence were maintained on selected […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

Kim Philby: The Unknown Story of the KGB’s Master Spy by Tim Milne

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] extreme left (secretly) to extreme right (publicly)’.6 This abrupt change of outlook is put down to his Soviet contacts: having been recruited to work underground for the Communist cause on his return from Austria, Philby was instructed to present himself as an establishment figure, in the expectation that this would facilitate his access to […]

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[…] RESERVE FORCES A paramilitary committee of former high-ranking service officers has, for the past six years, been receiving official government support to set up an undercover, anti- communist resistance movement in Britain (Daily Express 18/7/77). The Resistance and Psychological Operations Committee (RPOC) is a covert group within the government-funded Reserve Forces Association (RFA). The […]

The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s operational zone included a long section of the […]

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[…] was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s administrative area included a long section of the […]

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