Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] of the provision of funds and the attempted coordination of goals.(30) What has not yet been made sufficiently clear is the full role and influence of Irving Brown in the setting-up of the CCF in 1950-51.(31) Brown held a crucial position within the ERP-CIA-AFL-CCF linkage. Saunders’ treatment of Brown as a useful CIA asset […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
At a CBI conference in November last year Gordon Brown called for a ‘world-wide campaign in support of globalisation and its benefits. He said the anti-globalisation and protectionist forces ‘fail to recognise the great truth that free trade, open markets and flexibility are the preconditions of modern economic success’.Does he really believe this? The […]
Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] Fizzland: the Free Trade Union Committee and the CIA’ in the American journal Labor History, vol. 39, No. 1, 1998 (pp. 25-42) Using the recently opened Irving Brown papers, as well as other new sources and interviews, Carew has plotted some of the activities of the CIA in the US and European labour movement […]
Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992)
[…] Plan: Europe rebuilds with American money, buying American goods, employing the American urban masses. But the loans have American strings. Cue the ‘regulators’ — good old Irving Brown et al — a regiment of CIA agents and Labour Attachés to fund and steer the anti socialist wing of the European labour movement in the […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003)
[…] a jumbled story at the centre of which was his recruitment by a man called simply ‘Wallace’. Wallace was ID’d for them by LBJ’s former mistress, Madeleine Brown, who, when they met her, had named Malcolm ‘Mac’ Wallace as the probable killer of JFK in her then unpublished memoir, Texas In The Morning.(4) Using […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
[PDF file]: The great charlatan My Life, Our Times Gordon Brown The Bodley Head, 2017, £25, h/b John Newsinger There were never any fundamental policy differences between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Both men accepted that the world was completely dominated by the super rich and that government in the modern world had to serve their […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003)
In 1997 Robert Henderson, a retired civil servant, wrote to the then leader of the Opposition Tony Blair to ask for his help. Eventually he wrote a dozen or so letters to Blair and Cherie Booth. Blair then tried to have him prosecuted but the legal authorities refused to act. Blair or someone close to […]