The Great Betrayal

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] Counter Intelligence) in the I.G. Farben building.” (John Loftus, The Belarus Secret Penguin 1984) Not surprisingly, Bethell ignores the evidence that the Albanians on the CIA-sponsored Free Albania Committee were principally recruited from those “who had previously been denied visas as Nazi collaborators and war criminals. “(Loftus, above). Hardly the stuff of freedom fighters. SD

Web Update

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] the nation’s highest office.’ Factbook on Intelligence http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/facttell/index.html Updated version of the CIA Factbook on Intelligence, a history and guide to the CIA. German Propaganda Archive http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ Nazi and East German propaganda, translated. ‘Includes both propaganda itself and material produced for the guidance of propagandists. The goal is to help people understand the two […]

Profits of Peace: The Political Economy of Anglo-German Appeasement

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Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] payments system in which sterling would be the leading reserve currency.’ And thus, ‘The policy of appeasement followed naturally from the politico-economic priorities of inter-war British governments. Nazi Germany, with a foreign economic policy based on exchange controls and on barter agreements, was constructing an increasingly autarkic system of trade and payments in central […]

KO-ing the Kennedys: The Kennedys and State Secrets

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Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

The Kennedys: The Conspiracy to Destroy a Dynasty Matthew Smith Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing, h/b, £16.99, 2005 State Secrets: The Kent-Wolkoff Affair Bryan Clough Hove: Hideaway Publications, 2005, £15 (US $27.50)   Matthew Smith has written several books covering the tribulations of the Kennedy family and is described on the book jacket as a screenwriter and […]

The Internet: a strategic assessment by the US Department of Defense

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

[…] said the internet saved his life. Protest groups and activists The report discusses the use of the internet by international protest groups and activists, e.g. by neo- nazi groups in Germany and the Zapatistas in Mexico. It claims that the largest and most active political groups using it appear to be the San Fransisco-based […]

Mark Felt, Jason Blair and ‘Misty Beethoven’

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6) £££

Mark Felt is ‘Deep Throat’. Bob Woodward says so, and his word is law in this particular arena. No matter that Woodward had a dozen sources, some of whom may have been more important than Throat himself. The point is that ‘Throat’ is anyone Woodward says he is, and he says he is Felt. In … Read more

Lee Harvey Oswald in Mexico: new leads

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

The conspiracy trail is littered with unresolved leads, but few can be more important than Lee Harvey Oswald’s visit to Mexico shortly before the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. What was the purpose of Oswald’s visit to Mexico City? Was it Oswald or an impostor who visited the Cuban and Soviet embassies? And what … Read more

Right meets Left

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] all, is the difference between the NF and the SWP? I might mischievously suggest that whilst some (not all) in the NF harked back nostalgically to the Nazi period in which millions were killed by a brutal dictatorship, most people in the SWP look back fondly to a golden age when even more millions […]

Historical Notes: Channel 4 SOE mystery. Venona Decrypts

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] all the signs were pointing in another direction. It was a sentiment which was strengthened by war against the common enemy of the USA and the USSR, Nazi Germany. Here was a country which many believed to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had […]

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