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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
The parapolitical activities of Jean Violet go back to the 1930s, when Violet was supposedly involved with a violent quasi-Masonic movement going under the title of the Comite Secret pour l’Action Revolutionnaire, or CSAR. CSAR was part of a larger far-right phenomenon in pre-WW2 France, the conspiratorial members of which were referred to as Cagoulards, … Read more
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] Gary Webb’s breakthrough piece chronicling the links between the CIA; the Contras and the crack cocaine explosion in Los Angeles; through the CIA’s use of psychedelics, ex- Nazi scientists and mind control, into the murky worlds of Indo-China; and then, via a chapter on Afghanistan, back to the United States and the cocaine connections […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] as working-class politics in Britain remained strong and secular; socialist organisations led the battle against racism and fascism – as in the example of the mass-based Anti- Nazi League and Asian Youth Movement. Problems began when left sects like the SWP cynically transformed the ANL into a pacifist recruitment conduit and abandoned Asian communities […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
Kenn Thomas Illuminet Press, Lilburn, GA 30048 USA, 1999, $14.95 www.illuminetpress.com The Crisman in the book’s title is a man called Fred Lee Crisman who is one of only two people who were involved at the beginning of the American UFO saga and who appear in the Kennedy assassination story. The other one is … Read more
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] this. I gave up after about 60 pages. It is strewn with errors, misinterpretations and inventions. Here are some examples. p. 20 ‘Prince Bernhard drew on his Nazi history in corporate management to encourage the “super secret policy-making groups” to call themselves the Bilderbergers after Farben Bilder, in memory of the Farben executives’ initiative […]