Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
Giles Scott-Smith London: Routledge/PSA 2002, £55 This is a welcome addition to the growing literature on the Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA-funded operation that ran for two decades after World War II of which Encounter magazine was the best-known British component. Giles Scott-Smith has added to the historical record well illuminated by Christopher … Read more
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] All these tales were complete nonsense and had been put about by Wilson’s enemies on the far right, which included some powerful figures in the intelligence and security establishment. It is now widely accepted that these groups had attempted to undermine the 1964-70 and 1974-76 Wilson governments,() that they failed, and that in a […]
Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££
[…] which first revealed the existence of the ‘Gable memorandum’, and included a quotation from a profile of Gable in the Jewish Chronicle which mentioned his ‘contacts…..in the security services’. The allegation that our article is ‘based on’ whatever former NF members Harrington and Griffin were writing or saying six years ago is totally untrue. […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] the SS, necessitated by strategy, away from Rosenberg’s biological exultation of Nordicism towards the ascendant pan-Europeanism of the Waffen SS and factions within the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office) who saw it as detrimental to an effective occupation policy. Embracing Nordicism as a desirable yet unattainable aesthetic ideal, this element set about restructuring fascism […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
The Imperial War Museum book of Modern Warfare: British and Commonwealth Forces at War 1945-2000 Edited by Major General Julian Thompson London: Pan Books, 2003, £8.99 This is the paperback edition of the book published by Sidgwick and Jackson a year ago. It contains 15 essays on conflicts that have involved British armed forces … Read more
Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££
[…] and Cowboy War seems to have viewed Watergate this way before Hougan. It seems the military were also planting spies within the White House and the National Security Council. This episode, ‘the Moorer-Radford affair’, was actually referred to at the time as ‘Seven Days in May’. Hougan’s reading of this period, and the implications […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££
[…] and one-time head of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department; former CIA director James Schlesinger; another well known CIA man, Ray Cline; Robert McFarlane, former US National Security Adviser; and Irving Brown, former head of the international work of the AFL-CIO, the American TUC and a well known CIA figure in the post-war labour […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
Introduction In 1967 the CIA sent out to ‘Chiefs, Certain Stations and bases’ a briefing document, Dispatch Document 1035- 960, titled ‘Countering Criticism of the Warren Report’. This unintentionally very revealing and faintly comic document was reproduced in issue 2 of the now defunct newsletter, The Dorff Report in March 1990. In view of the … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 1 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Pan Books, 1998, £7.99 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 2 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan, 1999, £25 The Journals of Woodrow Wyatt, Vol. 3 ed. Sarah Curtis London: Macmillan 2000, £25 Woodrow Wyatt’s diaries are quite remarkable. Any normal persons would have tried … Read more
Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] ()there was an article, ‘War Stories’ by Carne Ross, who was, in his own words, ‘the British “expert” on Iraq for the UK delegation to the UN Security Council responsible for policy on both weapons inspections and sanctions against Iraq’ from 1998 to 2002. His account of the events leading up to war, with […]
