Spooks

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] and K.P.Thomas: — all IRD Special Editorial unit, early 70s. Obituaries Richard Lowenthal the influential former German social democrat died in Berlin 10 August 1991. An anti- nazi, he came to Britain in 1938 where he attracted the attention of the intelligence services. Worked with Sefton Delmer and others on propaganda work. In 1948 […]

George Orwell and the IRD

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] we shall not get it. If we do not get it, then Fascism is coming; probably a slimy Anglicised form of Fascism, with cultured policeman instead of Nazi gorillas and the lion and the unicorn instead of the swastika. But if we do get it there will be a struggle, conceivably a physical one, […]

Historical Notes: Anglo-American Conflict? UK becomes a US intelligence target

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)

[…] (Foreign Secretary, 1938-41). As a result of his discussion with Aberconway, Roberts claimed that ‘we now know that …… Chamberlain……was willing to go far further to appease Nazi Germany, in order to dissuade Hitler from invading Poland, than was ever supposed.’ It emerges that Chamberlain and Halifax authorised the businessmen to explore the possibility […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]

Historical Notes

Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3)

Kenneth De Courcy Kenneth de Courcy buffs will be pleased to know that they can now visit a website with some interesting further information about this maverick figure. The site can be found at < http:// www.pharo.com/intelligence >, and is run by the team which produced Double Standards, last year’s interesting study of the Hess … Read more

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

The final testimony of George Kennedy Young Introduction When this was published we believed that it had been written by a close friend of his. Subsequently we learned that it had been written by Young himself. As far as we were able to judge, it is accurate. But this is by no means the whole […]

John Maynard Keynes and the Anglo-American Special Relationship: a Reinterpretation

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9)

[…] international rivalry. For much of the period since taking up office in 1933 Secretary of State Cordell Hull had directed particular resentment at the bilateral practices of Nazi Germany (barter trade, in which nations swapped goods to a roughly equivalent level, any difference in value being made up in currency to be spent by […]

Notes from the underground part 3: British fascism 1983-6

Lobster Issue 25 (1993)

[…] 5 December 1990, especially pp. 41-5. It is taken as given below that the NF is fascist (though at times of a novel kind), with traces of Nazi and non-fascist ideologies too. Although this view of the organisation isn’t really accepted by NF members who have been so kind as to give me interviews, […]

Deep Black: the secrets of space espionage (Book Review) & Journals

Lobster Issue 16 (1988)

[…] gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other perverts …. a mass movement, modelled on the SA, the left wing of the Nazi movement, and their modern-day heirs, the Soviet controlled Greens of West Germany” I could go on but mocking this delusional system of belief is too easy […]

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