Ring of Spies: How MI5 and the FBI brought down the Nazis in America by Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] period. The author claims that the sensational press coverage of both the Rumrich and Duquesne cases raised public awareness about the threat posed to US democracy and security by German agents, and created a short-lived interest in Hollywood thrillers about heroic ‘G-Men’. Specifically, Warner Brothers released Confessions of a Nazi Spy in May 1939, […]

Tottenham burning: the minor practitioners of Soros’ “open society”

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] burn the last legal barriers protecting ostensible income reserves — the deferred tax assets accrued from the meagre state pension and healthcare systems — cynically named ‘Social Security’. The Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US debt was as predictable as the burning of a Debenham’s department store in Clapham Junction — once the largest […]

Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA

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[…] O’Brien’s office.” “We tap them, they tap us, it’s routine,” he said.’ (p. 188) It is surprising that a former senior CIA officer, whose speciality had been security, let something like this ‘slip’. More support for the Copeland thesis quoted above, perhaps. But the author shows that at least one other member of the […]

Hollow Hegemony: Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: Contents Lobster 58 Hollow Hegemony Rethinking Global Politics, Power and Resistance David Chandler London: Pluto Books, 20009, £17.99 I shouldn’t be reviewing this book: I am not qualified to do so. What do I know about international relations theory, which is what this book is about? And, in any case, its subject matter is really […]

View from Bridge 87

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[…] organization, no one will recognize it, no one will give it status at the , no one will let it put forth a resolution at the U.N. Security Council.9 A third Israeli official, Brigadier General Yitzhak Segev – who, during part of or 7 Available at or . 8 9 . 4 the 1980s, […]

The Hess flight: still dangerous for historians – even after 75 years

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] take over the project. They too had their problems. A freelance producer cracked under political pressure and had to be replaced by the Official Historian of the Security Service (MI5). 5 Dr Matthias Uhl of the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau unveiled in 20116 a chilling document found in the State Archive of the Russian […]

LBJ: the mastermind of JFK’s assassination by Phillip F. Nelson

Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Percy Holt were my contacts, plus Tippit a few times. Otherwise I can’t say who ran the safe house.’ In this paragraph he offers the Defence Industrial Security Command (DISC) and MI5 Division 5, who were in a version of the assassination story circulating in the 1970s called The Torbitt Memorandum (which originated in […]

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