Kennedy Miscellany

Lobster Issue 29 (1995) £££

[…] get a whiff of this from its subtitle: John F Kennedy’s Assassination is still a magnet for every popeyed wahoo clinging to a theory incriminating Freemasons, UFOs, Nazi satanists, psychic cliques and the abominable snowman.’ This is a wonderful (bad and good ‘wonderful’) exercise in guilt by association. Some of the piece will be […]

Re:

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] pp. 185-204. Office of Military Government, United States – responsible for the post-war administration of the US Army controlled areas of Germany and Berlin. Psychological warfare against Nazi Germany: the Sykewar Campaign, D-Day to VE-Day, (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1971). Umaru Bah, ‘Daniel Lerner, cold war propaganda and US development communication research: an historical […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] a story, ‘Sex slaves Imported to Israel’, illustrated by a cartoon of ‘white girls’ being auctioned by Jews, which would not have been out of place in Nazi Germany. Like others before him, Girard talks to The Spotlight because no-one else is interested in what he has to say. The world is full of […]

First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 14-18 ROYAL NAVY NAVAL INTELLIGENCE -18 HOLLAND -19 NORWAY. INTERNATIONAL PAINTS AND COMPOSITIONS LTD. -39 ENGLAND NAVAL INTELLIGENCE -41 NORWEIGIAN SECTION MI6: WORKED ON ATTEMPTS TO FRUSTRATE NAZI DEVELOPMENT OF THE BOMB -45 RESPONSIBLE FOR ATOMIC INTELLIGENCE AND AQUISITION OF TECHNICAL INTELLIGENCE? -51 ATOMIC ENERGY DIRECTORATE OF THE MINISTRY OF SUPPLY WHITE, SIR (VINCENT) […]

Searchlight yet again

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] addresses and telephone numbers of far Right organisations, both British and foreign. Furthermore, many of the groups Searchlight effectively advertises free of charge are the most pro- Nazi (in the true sense of the word) and pro-violence. Looking through Searchlight from the start of 1992 to October 1994 the following groups and publications – […]

MI5: New Threats for Old? Turning up the Heat: MI5 after the Cold War

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994) £££

[…] the pub”. (p. 6) It defies belief to think that anti-fascists would deliberately admit to covertly monitoring fascist meetings from within the same premises: such would alert Nazi “counter-intelligence”. This points, therefore, to the state having at least one, or maybe more, operatives inside the local BNP, and them being very confident indeed. ‘(Emphasis […]

Ronald Gray (1920-2008)

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] early important books on the Labour Party and on African politics. Ronald had a particular interest in Germany in the two World Wars and the Holocaust and Nazi genocide, having been a field gunner in the Eighth Army throughout World War II. He was probably the first British soldier to see the 335 victims […]

Pinay 2: Jean Violet

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

Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Media

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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 […]

The Cecil King coup plot

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 […]

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