[…] an Italian periodical, reported that Silone was ‘between 1928 and 1930, not just a leader of the CP in Italy, but a reliable collaborator of the fascist secret police OVRA’. I have seen no reference to this in Britain. Some of Laurens Otter’s comments on the Common Wealth Party in Feedback (Lobster 36) were […]
[…] in that coup. Kahin’s innocence is understandable when he is describing his travels in the region in the 1950s: the CIA was still, more or less, a secret organisation; but a lot of information has been produced since then and his ignorance in the late 1990s when he wrote this is difficult to comprehend […]
[…] for example, he talks of the CIA in its ‘great, early days ….. manned by the flower of American youth…. something almost entirely new in history, a secret intelligence service that was dedicated to doing good in the world by stealth.’ Ah, the self-confidence (and self-delusion) in ‘doing good in the world by stealth’. […]
Transnationalised Repression; Parafascism and the U.S. Orlando Bosch’s most recent umbrella alliance, CORU (Co-ordination of United Revolutionary Organisations) had just been assembled in June 1976. In October 1976, according to Kruger, CORU representatives attended meetings in Barcelona, Spain, which established a new International Fascista. This comprised elements from the Italian MSI (the Ordine Nuovo of … Read more
Extracts from an address by John Allman, Secretary of Christians Against Mental Slavery, to the civil rights rally in Houston, Texas, on 30 July 2004. My name is John Allman. I am honoured to have been invited to come here from England to talk to you about a new danger facing all mankind. A favourite … Read more
[…] didn’t get any attention in Lobster: I read it for the publisher months before it was published in the U.K.. Although largely based on Jim Hougan’s 1984 Secret Agenda (reviewed in Lobster 8), Colodny and Gettlin have done an impressive research job which results in these central claims: As Hougan argued, the break-in which […]
[…] Iraq and Earl Brian, corrupt functionary of the Reagan administration, for an illegal sale of the PROMIS software. Moyle no doubt imagined himself to be a super secret agent; Casolaro wanted fodder for a novel. The juxtaposition of their deaths, and the others connected the pursuit of this Octopus power bloc, says a little […]
[…] similar to their smearing and libelling of the Observer journalist Gregory Palast. Palast was a ‘sex pest’; Henderson a ‘stalker’. Henderson then received the attention of the secret state, having his mail interfered with and (he thinks) his phone tapped. Henderson has written to everybody – hundreds of people, the entire British political establishment […]
[…] a blog on the book and its reception at Named after Francis Bacon who, while a great scientist and thinker, was also an enthusiastic servant of the secret arms of the state. This book appeared just before the stories of forces of the Occult Enlightenment trying to rewrite Wikipedia entries – the perfect illustration […]
[…] case officers. Two are identified, one remains under a pseudonym; two were the kind of urbane, civilised people we are led to believe work for Her Majesty’s Secret Service; one, the late Alexis Forte, was an obnoxious Russian racist. There is much incidental detail on SIS methods in London in the 1970s and 80s, […]
