The Red Hand

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Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££

[…] to grind’. This is a gem. In the first place, Fred’s allegations are not ‘entirely uncorroborated’. Right at the beginning of the story Duncan Campbell of the New Statesman checked out much of it. In the second place, since Fred’s book was published, to my knowledge not a line of it has been refuted. […]

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SAS

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] climbed the mountain in 1976. Group Medic Dr Richard Villier. (Times 9th April 1984) * * * SAS honouring its founder Colonel David Stirling by naming its new barracks in Hereford after him. (Guardian 30th May 1984). Stirling was involved in the strike-breaking GB 75. He still runs Television International Enterprises which runs a […]

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World Parafascism, Drugs and Crime

Lobster Issue 12 (1986) £££

[…] scandal, found their way to the Christian Falangist Party in Lebanon. (114) In June 1977, as we have already noted, Orlando Bosch’s daughter and son-in-law were arrested for attempting to smuggle $200,000 worth of cocaine. There are, moreover, grounds for suspecting an organised connection between the criminal activities of the European neo-fascists and the […]

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The ‘Wilson plots’ and related parapolitics (Book review)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] to make TV programmes. Recently, Taylor has fronted a series of programmes (and written a book) which seem to me to do little more than rehash the new MI5 rationale for continuing its budget. I wrote to Will Wyatt, the Managing Director of Network Television, the man who pulled the plug on the programme, […]

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Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] for almost half a century – was the subject of a 1994 PhD thesis by Thomas Mahl, 48 Land, which became his 1999 book, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-44. (US: Brassey’s, 1999). Notes I have read the PhD but not the book and assume the two are basically the same.

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South African Connections

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] Tory rightwingers (SL May 1983). Break-ins at Zambian High Commission were revealed. Head of SA Security Police, Coetzee, visited British intelligence in March. Believed SA established a new London burglary team in April (G. 27th June 1983). 7. SA propaganda links to Tory rightwingers and funding of Foreign Affairs Research Institute (FARI) (G. 11th […]

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Understanding others

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

[…] adversary is inherent to the British approach.’ In his interesting short history of anthropology’s relationship to US overt and covert foreign policy in the 20th century, McFate notes that the US military’s need of anthropologists is stymied somewhat by the state of American anthropology after the Vietnam War. ‘Rejecting anthropology’s status as the handmaiden […]

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Book reviews: David Stirling. Gemstone File. Eustace Clarence Mullins

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Lobster Issue 25 (1993) £££

[…] of the late Mae Brussel’s radio programme devoted to the file.   Eustace Clarence Mullins; the World’s Premier Conspiracy Historian on the Jews, the Fed and the New World Order A. Baron InfoText Manuscripts, co 93c Venner Road, Sydenham, London SE26 5HU, £3.99 This is 60 A4 pages, typed on one side and stapled […]

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Stalin’s granny

Book review
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] them, as Burke implies? There certainly were some among the U.S. Air Force, notably Curtis LeMay, who wanted to obliterate the Soviet Union in the early 1950s.(3) Notes No, I am not suggesting that Knightley is an MI5 asset. Knightley has been a pain in the spooks’ posterior for 40 years. In Stanley Kubrick’s […]

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Fred Holroyd in America

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] rubbished and his reputation smeared by the British press.’ (Hansard, 17 December, 1993, column 1466) The Minister of State for Northern Ireland, Sir John Wheeler, replied, adding new disinformation. ‘The Hon. Gentleman referred to the allegations of a Mr Fred Holroyd. Her Majesty’s Government had 48 hours notice, not a week, of Mr Holroyd’s […]

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