Moscow Gold: ‘the Communist threat’ in post-war Britain

Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] the NUS’s press and publicity officer. IRIS had been formed in 1956 as the industrial wing of Common Cause — my choice as the place where the CIA spent some of its money in the UK. See the essay in Lobster 19. Nash’s former role as an employee of the ICFTU presumably explains the […]

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Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth and Neo-Nazism

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Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] provide is, firstly, a couple of chapters containing the most detailed and condensed information on the post-war dealings of the ultra right outside the files of the CIA, KGB, MI5/6 etc. At one point there is so much talk about the ‘Third Way’ and European unity that you could think you were reading a […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] Sweden, Greece and Switzerland. Characteristically, this directive includes a special notice which authorized its distribution to the Allied Intelligence Services of Great Britain, including the United States CIA. Question Could you tell us some of the BIS actions aimed at the Soviet Union? K.P. I could illustrate your question in conjunction with the tourist […]

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Mass Control: Engineering Human Consciousness

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] this? John Coleman, he of the ‘Committee of 300’ fantasies, and writers from La Rouche’s EIR. Even worse, we get 30 pages on Project Monarch, the alleged CIA sex-slave mind control programme, and first-hand accounts from some of Monarch’s alleged subjects. This is all total twaddle. There is no evidence of Monarch’s existence and […]

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Trouble makers

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] to them by the US. ‘The UK has no intelligence assets in central Asia. We are dependent on information giv- en to us by the United States’ CIA and NSA.’ The British overseas lobby in Whitehall – like Tony Blair – still dreams of being a ‘world player’. But it doesn’t have the tax […]

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A Friendship of Convenience

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] Montagu had seduced his son whilst they were both at Eton. The book ends with Losey surveying the smouldering ruins of Nettlefold Studios, supposedly torched by the CIA in an attempt to demonstrate to the FBI that it could carry out acts of sabotage with the best of them, and also to warn Losey […]

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The Clandestine Caucus

Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
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[PDF file]: […] the first of the euphemistic cover names for U.S. covert action agencies in the post-war era, was formed in 1948, staffed and run by the newly created CIA, but nominally under the control of the State Department. In effect the CIA’s covert arm, by 1952 the OPC had forty-seven stations, 30 Cited in Carew […]

Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher

Lobster Issue 11 (April 1986) £££
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[PDF file]: […] £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 up a third organisation, the Institute for the Study of Conflict (ISC). Several members of the Information Research Department then […]

Tokyo legend? Lee Harvey Oswald and Japan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to steal U-2 secrets. As we shall see later, Stout thought the idea that that Oswald had any ability to steal U-2 secrets was totally absurd. The CIA thought similarly. In a 14 April 1964 letter to J. Edgar Hoover, then CIA Deputy Director of Plans, Richard Helms, stated that it was virtually impossible […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] in 1993 shifted him into position in the 14th District, where he stayed until 2004 when he quit to take up position as George W. Bush’s nominated CIA director. This was very much a return to home turf, when you consider his early career. In 1960, Goss was a Yale student, where he was […]

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