The Organising of Intellectual Consensus: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and Post-War US-European Relations (Part I)

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] that Failed (Hamish Hamilton/London, 1950) was a collection of six essays edited by Labour MP Richard Crossman, three by ‘the initiates’ (Arthur Koestler, Ignazio Silone, and Richard Wright) and three by ‘worshippers from afar’ (Andre Gide, Louis Fischer, and Stephen Spender) on their disillusioned experiences with communism and the communist movement. While there was […]

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Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] of large-scale contract engineering work throughout the world. Ian Fraser is a director of BOC. Kindersley (see above) is a director of Wilkinson, as is S. H. Wright of Lazards. Lord Netherthorpe of Lazards is deputy chairman of Dalgety; Lt. Col. C.P. Dawney and J.A. Turner of Lazards are former directors. Dalgety is a […]

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Lobster Issue 36: Contents

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] 1 on page 28 of Lobster 35 I referred to Labour MP Tony Lloyd as a ‘moderniser’. My apologies to Mr Lloyd: I confused him with Tony Wright. Donations Thanks to Carol Smith for a donation of £200. The fact that the money was otherwise intended for the Labour Party makes it the sweeter. […]

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Kincoragate: More Bodies

Lobster Issue 3 (1984) £££

[…] as a pseudo-gang. It was directed from ‘Six’ local HQ in the Culloden Hotel at Craigavad, beside MI6 administrative HQ in Laneside House on Station Road. Michael Wright a young UDA man associated with McKeague, was killed in a mystery booby-trap explosion. UDA issued statement saying he was murdered by the Security Forces ‘dirty […]

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A review of the (bad) reviews of Smear! Wilson and the Secret State

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Mirror (2 September) for whom we had produced a ‘ragbag of spelling and factual errors…a regurgitation of the wilder fantasies of Private Eye, Auberon Waugh, Spycatcher, Peter Wright, Colin Wallace and Tony Benn.’ Joe Haines first attacked us in 1986 when Tribune printed an abbreviated version of Lobster 11. Since then he as rubbished […]

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Kincoragate

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] the policy seems to have been set by the Army. Black propaganda and covert action began once it became clear that internment had failed. 1971 saw Oliver Wright replaced by Howard Smith (later head of MI5) as intelligence co-ordinator, and the establishment of a Psyops Unit at the Lisburn Headquarters. The then head of […]

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Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] the Angleton-Goltisyn relationship and subsequent mole-hunts. (The latter first appears on p. 49.) Crudely summarised, the book shows that for 20 years Angleton and his fans (Peter Wright, for example) believed complete crap for which they had not a shred of evidence — and were not challenged by the CIA’s senior management. This latter […]

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Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] managing director Pettigrew and director Lang also both on the NZFP board with Papps. Papps also responsible for the railway electrification program with big contracts for Cory Wright Salmon whose directors include I.L. McKay — also on the board of NZFP. Late 1983: AMEX (SOCAL) gives Gulf Oil a share in the Martha Hill […]

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New Cloak, Old Dagger: How Britain’s Spies Came In From The Cold

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Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] the war. On the revelations in the late 1980s of campaigns against the Wilson government we get nothing but repeated and unsubstantiated rubbishing of the late Peter Wright (pp. 17, 60, 65). There are some new fragments. He has interviewed a couple of the people who took part in the training of stay-behind groups […]

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The fiction of the state: The Paris Review and the invisible world of American letters

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] authors’ party at the home of Martin and Judy Shepard, publishers of the Permanent Press, which had published my secessionist book, Proposition 14. The novelist and play wright John Sherry, who was probably Peter Matthiessen’s closest friend and who had published Maggie’s Farm with Permanent Press, came over to me. I knew Sherry well. […]

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