Lee Harvey Oswald’s address book: a follow-up note

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information from a story in the American Communist Party paper The Worker.2 The article in question was penned by ‘Mike Newberry’, who frequently wrote about the far right.3 In June 1961, for example, Newberry […]

A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[PDF file]: […] who subscribed to Atlanticism and were more committed to détente with the Soviet Union, and the Southwestern ‘tycoon entrepreneur’ types, who tended to be more militantly anti- communist and were more deeply embedded in the oil and armaments industries. Similar formulations were offered by Kirkpatrick Sale in his book Power Shift (1975), which looked […]

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[…] lobby of former and serving intelligence and security personnel had been asserting that there was a substantial Soviet threat to the UK in the form of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). Laughable though this may have been to anyone who had contact with the CPGB,12 people like Mrs Thatcher believed that Arthur […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] clearance, the design and construction of the Boundary Estate by the London County Council in the 1890s; the contribution to UK political debate by socialist, anarchist and communist refugees from Tsarist Russia; ‘the validity of certain socialist/Marxist postulates for contemporary society’; a re-enactment of a speech from the film WR – Mysteries of the […]

Superstition and farce: the survival of the Inquisition in American political culture

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Miracles often catalysed insurrections. In Mexico, the Virgin of Guadeloupe was considered to be a miraculous power on the side of the Mexican peasantry and preceded the communist icons as a banner for revolution. The sainthood Page 67 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 commissions of the Church had the task of integrating these ‘miracles’ and […]

The devil has all the best songs: reflections on the life and times of Simon Dee

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[PDF file]: […] this point, actually announced when Radio Atlanta started broadcasting in May 1964, that it was intended to be ‘the last bastion of freedom if the country went Communist.’ This could only have been an allusion to the possibility that the general election that was due in late 1964 would result in a Labour government […]

Wall Street, the Supermob, and the CIA

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a CIA-backed union in France in the 1940s and then for the CIA’s Radio Free Europe. In the late 1950s he began working with the reformist, anti- Communist democrat José Figueres in Costa Rica. By the early 1960s, with funding from the Parvin Foundation and another CIA conduit, the J. M. Kaplan Fund, Volman […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] a very good 25 page paper, ‘Zersetzen: Some Precedents’.37 Of this paper Russell writes: ‘Zersetzen is a process of character assassination and threats developed by the former communist East German secret police, the “STASI”, to persecute dissidents. Shockingly, as our spy agencies morph into a secret police, they are using Zersetzen today to persecute […]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The diaries 1938-1943 Edited by Simon Heffer

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[PDF file]: […] ‘Maisky and Rab were closeted together for nearly two hours!’ (3 October 1940) and concluded with ‘Rab had a long conference with Maisky this afternoon; the filthy communist was rude, pessimistic and obstructive’. (27 November 1940) What were they discussing? Channon doesn’t say. He must have known, Zoia de Stoeckl and her husband Alfons […]

Thatcher’s Secret War by Clive Bloom

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[PDF file]: […] ‘a strike-breaking force that included all sorts of disgruntled intelligence operatives, former soldiers and arms dealers who were preparing for a coup against what they considered a communist government led by a communist agent – the Prime Minister himself.’ (p. 47) But to my knowledge the personnel of GB75 were never revealed and The […]

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