PERMINDEX: The International Trade in Disinformation

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] directors of the Rome World Trade Centre (Centro Mondiale Commerciale – aka CMC); that CMC was used as a conduit by the CIA for subsidies to anti- Communist groups; that CMC had links with the Italian Fascists; that CMC was affiliated with Permindex (Permanent Industrial Exhibitions); that Permindex had been expelled from Switzerland because […]

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Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] and told her he could arrange for her to visit Czechoslovakia to see relatives. He painted a rosy picture of life in the country and of the Communist Party. She declined his offers and after some further efforts at persuasion she left the room to join the others. She learned later that he was […]

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The Great Alliance: Economic Recovery and the Problems of Power 1945-51

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] Phillips provides the first detailed examination of which I am aware of the various dock strikes during the period. Phillips concludes that the various charges of ‘ communist conspiracy’ made by members of the government and senior trade union officials were spurious, and probably known to be spurious at the time.(1) The one oddity […]

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The View From MI5

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] the Labour Party of 1974 was under the influence of the Soviet Union: “It is estimated that between 20 and 30 Labour MPs are members of the Communist Party.” And there is a list of Labour politicians “who are belief to be communists and who hold positions of influence”; viz. Labour MPs Benn, Mikado, […]

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Cold War Stories

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] details the U.S. role in Indonesia’s deadly purge of ‘ communists’ in the 1960s. The volume concerned also points out that the US embassy supplied lists of communist leaders to the Indonesians who were trying to destroy the PKI. The embassy said the lists were ‘……apparently being used by Indonesian security authorities who seem […]

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The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of the Labour Party by ‘communists’ and, in the 1979 version, by ‘communist’ and Trotskyist groups. Contemporary reports suggested these pamphlets had been distributed by the million. I met him in 1987. He was a very charming toff. I […]

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A War of Words: a Cold War Witness

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Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, with security collateral, intelligence about communist malpractices in the unions that could be used by IRD. This led, among other things, to the ousting of Foulkes and Haxell from the leadership of […]

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Empire’s Workshop

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

Greg Grandin New York: Metropolitan books, 2006, $25.00   Reviewing a biography of Harold Laski in 1953,() the historian A. J. P. Taylor remarked on ‘the dilemma of our times’: that ‘no-one who believes in liberty can ever work sincerely with communists, or trust them, yet no-one who has socialism in his bones can ever […]

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Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

Dr. Anthony Glees, who wrote an interesting study of German Exile Politics in WW2 (Clarendon Press 1982) is shortly bringing out a book on Communist Subversion and British counter-intelligence 1939-45 (Jonathan Cape). Our view of that might be influenced by the fact that he has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who […]

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International Labour and the Origins of the Cold War

Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the name of ‘the communist threat’. This left revisionist thesis, specifically the wide-spread belief on the European Left that the shape of post-war unionism in Europe was largely down to the […]

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