General Władysław Sikorski and the B-24

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] just as Stalin and Roosevelt were forcing Churchill to accept that winning the war was more important than the original 1939 casus belli of saving Poland from Nazi Germany. The Gibraltar B-24 crash was immediately blamed on a conspiracy.13 10 Krakow Post, 4 August 2008: . Nicholas Rankin, Defending the Rock: How Gibraltar Defeated […]

Did the Mossad steal John le Carré’s cunning plan?

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[PDF file]: […] The derivative Drummer Girl operation only ended after a desperate showdown in a Munich street, with Olivia Frank strapped to two radiocontrolled bombs by a German neo- Nazi intent on killing German Jews. Mrs Frank, now 63 and living in Shropshire, thinks the Drummer Girl–derived plan may have originated in the mind of her […]

Historical Notes

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[PDF file]: […] and growing pile of evidence and historiography indicating that Hess’s mission to Britain was one link in a long chain of covert wartime peace negotiations between the Nazi regime – or elements of it – and influential circles in British politics and society connected to the Court and the landed aristocracy, the City of […]

Holding pattern

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[PDF file]: […] along which information reaches national media in Britain.’20 As I was putting this latest batch of Holding Pattern together, The Guardian ran a serendipitous feature on how Nazi Germany hijacked AP’s Berlin offices and stuffed their news desk with Nazi party members in order to exert indirect influence on Allied media sources. This also […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]

Making America Great

Lobster Issue 78 (Winter 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] 100 years as a sheep’) – although it is possible that Trump has no idea who Mussolini was. Cole also briefly chronicles the rise of the neo- Nazi alt-right and the support that it has given to Trump, as well as looking at the opposition that ‘the pedagogies of hate’ have provoked. But while […]

The view from the bridge

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[PDF file]: […] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]

Kelly Bond 007 essay

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[…] classical and jazz music critic, as well as an intelligence officer. That profile fits Henry Pleasants, another Philadelphian who served in the OSS during WWII. Pleasants debriefed Nazi General Reinhard Gehlen and became the CIA officer in Bonn, Germany, after the war, all the while writing classical and jazz music reviews. In their book […]

Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands by Richard Sakwa

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Stepan Bandera until his assassination by the KGB in 1959, which embraced the politics of the Far Right, racism and xenophobia. Anti-Soviet Ukrainian nationalists fought with the Nazi Germans on the Russian front in 1941-45 and to this day some continue to profess National Socialist ideas. The pluralist tradition, on the other hand, is […]

View from Bridge 89

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[…] CARR) captured my attention because, with more than a passing interest in post-war British fascism (my PhD subject the National Front 1986-90 and I have analysed Neo- Nazi group Combat 18), I was perturbed at the variable quality of his expert academic testimony in the now concluded trials involving both members/alleged members of the […]

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