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, […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] functions.” The US, the German-Argentines and the Myth of the Fourth Reich Donald C. Newton, Hispanic American Historical Review, Feb. 1984 With the increasing interest in things Nazi in this part of the world (Barbie et al), this might be of some interest. The author argues that the ‘Fourth Reich’ was a fraud, a […]

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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 […]

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Brief Notes on the Political Importance of Secret Societies (Part 2)

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, Douglas MacArthur’s chief of G-2 in the Pacific theatre, and a renowned right-winger; Lt. General P.A. del Valle, a member of the neo- Nazi Liberty Lobby and the National States Rights Party (24); Admiral Charles M. Cooke, former commander of the Far Eastern Fleet and an unofficial adviser in 1950 […]

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Publications

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] intelligence shortly after WW2. Contains several lines of inquiry to be pursued, such as: “I discovered how British POW camps in Italy and Yugoslavia became waystations for Nazi immigration. According to these sources, the real ‘Odessa’ network was composed of British staffers in MI6” (p164) Really?! Loftus also claims that the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik Nations […]

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Following in Uncle Sam’s dirty footsteps: chemical and biological warfare testing in the UK

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] Olsen was murdered because he was considered a security risk to the CIA’s highly sensitive and top secret mind control programmes. The Nuremberg trials revealed how far Nazi Germany had gone in the development of mind control means, using prisoners of war, as well as Jews. The result was the conviction of 23 German […]

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