Historical Notes on the War in Ukraine

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[…] the Cold War gathered momentum. The Western allies began to work hard to loosen the Soviet grip on eastern Europe and to this end British and American intelligence now started to back the OUNUPA struggle against Moscow. They provided logistical support and more Mark Aarons and John Loftus, Ratlines: How the Vatican’s Nazi Networks […]

Cryptoscatology: Conspiracy Theory as Art Form by Robert Guffey

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: […] or false is a handicap. He tells us that H. G. Wells was a member of the Round Table and spent WW2 as the head of British intelligence. Neither claim is true; and the fact that on this he cites the late Jim Keith, one of the less reliable people in this area, for […]

Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O’Neill

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] for Grand Theft Auto’. According to ex-LASO detective Preston Guillory, Manson was never arrested ‘because our department thought he was going to attack the Black Panthers’ ( intelligence had revealed Manson’s shooting of Bernard Crowe). Guillory told O’Neill: ‘I believe there was something bigger Manson was working on. Cause a stir. Blame it on […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] about his dealings with Canada’s CSIS in Lobster 65: ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . CSIS is Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service. 4 1 affidavit, including detailed testimony on the Zersetzen crimes and their cover up. This sworn testimony also includes considerable 3rd part corroboration as to […]

Newton on Keynes

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[…] wealthy since the late 1950s.33 In the British case it was given a helping hand by elements embedded within the state, notably the military and security and intelligence agencies, reluctant to embrace the end of Empire.34 Using allies in the press, politics and higher education, these forces have fought a war for the accumulation […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] million blank ballot papers.2 This led almost inevitably to a rash of public 1 This may be a new name for the National Domestic Extremism and Disorder Intelligence Unit. About which see . The text of a request to the Met to explain the relationship between the two organisations is at 2 scepticism (given […]

Political life in Britain

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[…] way he has fascinating stories to tell about John Addey, James Sherwood, Joseph Godson, the Gang of Four and many more. He also had experiences of the intelligence services worth reading. This is not an academic work, though academics could learn much from it. Nor is it just a collection of anecdotes from a […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] or a seascape, engaged in propaganda? He also goes on to describe Orwell as ‘an anti-Stalinist socialist whose work has been appropriated by . . . British intelligence operatives’. The first part of this is undoubtedly true. Orwell, however, was not ‘appropriated’ by British intelligence services. He willingly cooperated with them, particularly in passing […]

Using the UK FOIA

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] This is because disclosure of the withheld information would breach the principle that the UK government does not release the names of officials from its own external intelligence agency, and by extension, those of allied intelligence services. Consequently, the 1 FCO has argued that it would seriously compromise such cooperation and thus prejudice the […]

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