Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] when the blockade of Cuba was mounted.) Where the Angleton-Golitsyn nonsense did matter was in British domestic politics. Angleton’s delusions spread to MI5 and thence into the Conservative Party’s right-wing, parts of the military and professional subversive-hunters like Brian Crozier and IRD. This produced a network which believed that Harold Wilson was a Soviet […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] Hayward’s brother soon disappeared and all of the other people involved in the smuggling were arrested and convicted. Think of that what you will. John Gorst ( Conservative MP for Hendon North), who had previously met Captain Hayward in the early 80s, made a statement in the House of Commons regarding the situation.1 In […]
Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] 5 concealed a steady decline in Labour support, both in terms of activism and electoral turnout, leading to the present situation in which a very orthodox and conservative Labour seems incapable of landing a punch on a coalition submerged in political and economic crisis. Along the way Gould, apparently a rather undistinguished advertising man,6 […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] we will never know it. Postscript Angleton, Epstein, and the creation of Legend Some background on how Legend came about is worth noting since Reader’s Digest, a conservative publication known for its sympathetic coverage of the CIA, heavily bankrolled it. In 1974 Reader’s Digest published John Barron’s book KGB: The Secret Work of Soviet […]
Lobster Issue 85 (Summer 2023)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] (SOE). He was parachuted into Albania in April 1943, on the flight out reading Horse and Hound and the Tatler! Jones insists that while he had ‘ conservative . . . leanings’, he was by and large ‘uninterested in politics’. (p. 83) Once again, this seems much too generous. In fact, his conservatism was […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] If so, whatever could be gleaned about Hess from this contact could be used against anyone trying to negotiate with him: i.e. Bevin thought elements in the Conservative party were trying to reach a deal with the Nazi regime, and wanted material that would discredit them. Another explanation might be that the enquiry to […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
FREE
[PDF file]: […] has interviewed the most heads of state and government’, which is true as far as it goes. 4 Sarah Curtis notes simply that Mr Lewis was: ‘ Conservative MP, elected 1997’ – which again, is true as far as it goes but does not reflect Mr Lewis’ status at the time or, for example, […]