Brief Notes On The Political Importance Of Secret Societies

Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££

[…] by Licio Gelli, a wealthy businessman who had fought with the Falange in Spain and then for the fascist Republic of Salo in the last days of Nazi rule in Italy. Gelli’s purposes were revealed by his declaration in 1976 that “masonry hates communism because it is contrary to the idea of the dignity […]

Our American problem

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Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire Anne Norton New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004 $25/£16 What’s the Matter with America? Thomas Frank The Resistable Rise of the American Right London: Secker & Warburg, 2004, £12   Most of us in Europe find it difficult to understand what happened in America on … Read more

Great Northern? Was the author of Swallows and Amazons a Soviet secret agent?

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

An extraordinary claim in The Times by the Cambridge historian Professor Christopher Andrew, that Arthur Ransome has been identified in KGB documents as ‘the most important secret source of intelligence on British foreign policy’ for the Cheka, the terror organisation of Bolshevik Russia, has infuriated lovers of Ransome’s work. Unlike Michael Foot, similarly traduced, Ramsome […]

In Brief

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] Nicaragua to be as bad or worse than Nicaragua under Somoza; Mr Kissinger made it clear that he believes Nicaragua is as bad as or worse than Nazi Germany.” Assassination of Robert Kennedy Just published in the UK is Thomas Noguchi’s Coroner To the Stars (Coronet 1984) Noguchi was Los Angeles coroner and had […]

Stalin’s granny, Christopher Andrew and the Cold War

Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££

[…] into a foam-flecked apoplexy, they have charged like a lynch-mob after a silly old Tankie, whose ‘betrayal’ turns out to have been negligible, ludicrously equating her with Nazi war criminals and demanding, effectively, a political show-trial. At the same time they have hypocritically called for the release of a real mass-murderer, General Pinochet. Disappointingly, […]

If Truth be Told

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

If Truth be Told: Secrecy and subversion in an age turned unheroic Stan Winer Newton (Wales): Superscript, 2004, £10, p/back ISBN 0 9542913 36 available from <www.gardners.com/>   This arrived with a note from the publisher which began: ‘We are a tiny radical press operating from a council house in mid-Wales. We aim to make … Read more

JFK, the FBI and the Cambridge phone call

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] Soviet intelligence agent, The Oswald File, op cit, p. 65. I’m not sure what freelance means in this context, but for the Soviets? No. Osborne was pro- Nazi during the Second World War. There are frequent mentions of Osborne in Eddowes’ The Oswald File, but the key text remains Dick Russell’s The Man Who […]

The Anti-CND Groups. Ingrams

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] 1983) In April 1982 Joseph Bennett, a ‘supergrass’, gave evidence about a conspiracy to import arms for the UVF in 1980. It involved negotiations with the neo- Nazi VMO (Flemish Military Order). The deal between Bennett and John Irvine of the UVF and Albert Eriksson, a leader of the VMO, was simple: the VMO […]

Terrorism, Anti-Semitism and Dissent

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Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££

[…] as Home Secretary, and responsibility for MI5, he had to deal with the IRA mainland bombing campaign. Two, he had a long record of seeking to bring Nazi war criminals to justice and was highly regarded in the Jewish community – strongly represented in his Leeds constituency – in consequence.(1) In his book on […]

A ‘great venture’: overthrowing the government of Iran

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] might like to surprise the organiser, Dr. Alex Hay, at 2 Popes Lane, London W5 4NA (0181 567 6772), by asking him. Lyndon LaRouche Jnr, please note. Information Wanted On: FBI smear campaign against American Nazi Frank Collin/Cohn (1970s) FBI investigation into the Silent Brotherhood (1983-4) Fort Smith Sedition Trial (1988) To the editor, please.

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