Moscow on the Hudson?

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] are deemed by many as not comparable, even ‘poles apart’. This book challenges such conventional historical wisdom by taking the existing historical record and rewriting it. No new bombshell discoveries are presented. Instead, the book aims at freeing history from the ‘distorting prism that refracts the present’. The real strength of this book lies […]

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Miscellaneous: James Angleton. British democracy. Nazis

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] the press, just as they may do today, for all I know, they made their fury felt.’ Angleton’s ghost A wonderful piece of disinformation appeared in a New York Times editorial (7 January ’90) speculating on what we might learn from the Soviet Union now that the Cold War is over. Under the heading […]

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Who Really Runs the World? and, Who’s Watching You?

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Who Really Runs the World? The war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95   Two more from […]

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A Pretext for War; Ghost Wars

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the abuse of America’s intelligence agencies James Bamford, New York: Doubleday, 2004, h/back, $26.95 Ghost Wars: The Secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 Steve Coll New York: Penguin, 2004, h/back, $29.95   These books cover some […]

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Briefly: Ideas. Blitz to Blair. Covert Network. etc

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] political gossip; but at £29.50 for 200 pages? 1 See the review of his Thinking the Unthinkable in Lobster 28 p. 33. From Blitz to Blair: a new history of Britain since 1939 ed. Nick Tiratsoo Phoenix (Orion), London,1997, £7.99 pb This collection of essays covering the 1930s through to the arrival of Blair, […]

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Letter from America

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] contra effort. The details of this insanely complex affair now fill a 600-page volume called Compromised by John Cummings and Terry Reed, published by SPI books ( New York, 1994, $23.95) Briefly: Terry Reed functioned as an army intelligence officer during Vietnam, turning to civilian spookery in the late 70s. In 1982 he met […]

Kincoragate

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Since the 40’s he had been well known both as a homosexual and a religious extremist. It is likely that Wallace was one of those who k new: it is understood that as early as 1973 Wallace had quietly briefed journalists about McGrath’s activities. David McKittrick of the Irish Times has written of Wallace: […]

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Brothers

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] of the Kennedy years David Talbot London: Simon and Schuster, 2007, h/b, £20   Another Kennedy book? Yes, but a good one. Talbot may not have anything new of substance to tell us about the assassination per se but has much new material about events before and after it. Talbot’s JFK is a complex […]

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Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust, and, US Intelligence and the Nazis

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Secret Intelligence and the Holocaust Ed. David Bankier New York: Enigma Books, 2006. p/b, $23 US Intelligence and the Nazis Richard Breitman et al New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, p/b, £16.99   On 11 January 1943, the British intercepted ‘one of the most extraordinary messages’ of the war at Bletchley Park: it referred […]

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Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] more than describe and comment – I want to try to shape debates, to move upstream in the process of how ideas bring about change.’ The chosen new arena for her talents was the congenial world of thinktankery – Demos, no less, the home of the Third Way dreamed up by Geoff Mulgan (before […]

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