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[…] Herb Meyer worked with David Hart and Brian Crozier in the 1980s peddling the ‘enemy within’ story. See and . 5 7 8 a Soviet satellite. Mrs Thatcher, leader of the Conservative Party, certainly believed something like this and, while Leader of the Opposition, tried to get the state to take the allegations about […]

The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam by Douglas Valentine

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] been reissued as an e-book. One can only hope that the reign of terror in and by the US that expanded vastly with the election of Margaret Thatcher in the UK and Ronald Reagan will finally reach the consciousness of the white ‘Left’ and those whose sentimental attachment to the American creation myth is […]

NIck on Macintyre

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[…] regiment at the time – four of whom were actually members of the ‘Pagoda’ assault team. Then there’s the versions by political and policing figures – Margaret Thatcher, Willie Whitelaw, Douglas Hurd and (Metropolitan Police Commissioner) Sir David McNee – who also were integral at some level. That’s another four. There is the autobiography […]

Knightley

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[…] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. The cry that intelligence services are useless is a variation on the more specific […]

The Cuntocracy

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] finding out facts. If a trick works once it might just work again. One overlooked aspect of F. A. Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom (the book Margaret Thatcher slapped the table with saying that it had taken over her mind) is in a short section called ‘Why the Worst Get on Top’, where it […]

The Richer, The Poorer, by Stewart Lansley

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] shallow and temporary. (pp. 2/3) The author traces this well-footnoted and indexed history with academic rigour and journalistic anecdote. He shows how the free-market evangelists of the Thatcher and Reagan era repeated the myth that the great prize for a widening gap would be faster growth and a new economic dynamism that would raise […]

Knightley

Lobster Issue

[…] in explaining Soviet policy and thinking just at the point when the Soviet Union was cracking up, thus smoothing to way for the Gorbachev relationship first with Thatcher and then with the Americans. ‘Decisive’ – maybe not; but not insignificant. The cry that intelligence services are useless is a variation on the more specific […]

The Clandestine Caucus: a minor update

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] that book’s exploration of role of the spooks in British politics, with an interest in the history of the Tory right triggered by the arrival of Mrs Thatcher. And I was interested in Labour Party history. (I was a member in the 80s and 90s.) I haven’t methodically revisited CC since but relevant odds […]

The Spy Who Was Left Out in the Cold by Tim Tate

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] was a Soviet agent in a Labour Party which was controlled by the KGB through the trade unions. Ultimately Angleton and Golitsyn helped to give us Margaret Thatcher. Finally, considering how important Goleniewski was in intelligence terms, and how many books have been written about the intelligence ‘war’, it is striking – not to […]

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