Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)
[…] of what would be a very interesting book); none of them have taken on board enough of the parapolitical agenda: there is almost nothing on the military- intelligence complex; and all three give too little weight to the dominance of the City in this country’s recent history. But all of them, especially Tiratsoo and […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] a quick skim across Massiter, Bettaney, Charles Elwell – and thence into British Briefing, David Hart etc. (And Colin Wallace was not ‘a former officer in Army Intelligence’; and has not, to my knowledge, suggested that the League had office space in MI5 headquarters . But since this, like most of the assertions in […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006)
[…] played an important ideological role in broadly speaking secular organisations. The John Birch Society was founded in 1958. It took its name from a Baptist missionary and intelligence officer who had been killed by the Communist Chinese and whom they described as the first casualty of the Cold War. The Birchers claimed that America […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
Korean war biological warfare? Issue 11 of the Bulletin of Cold War International History Project contained what appears to be evidence that the allegations by North Korea and the Chinese that the US were using biological warfare during the Korean War were false – were in fact disinformation. Documents apparently from former Soviet archives seem … Read more
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] claimed to be confidential briefings “off the record”. The real reason which could not be told publicly for our entry to the common market was because our intelligence service had learned the Soviet Unions had plans to invade Western Europe and these would be carried out once the trade unions in Western Europe led […]