Arnhem 65 years on

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] World War, we can expect a round of reminders as the dwindling band of veterans gathers to mark the sacrifices their comrades made in the defeat of Nazi Germany. But is it too much to hope as The Very Best of Vera Lynn goes on sale that we might experience a little more than […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[PDF file]: Andrew Rosthorn Olivia Jayne Frank, alias Ruth Mayer, Ruth Alison Peacock, Rebekah Stern, Joanne Olivia Gold and Olivia Jayne Hart, a transgender spy for the Mossad, MI5 and MI6, died of pneumonia and kidney failure in the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital on September 11, 2023, 67 years after her birth at Crumpsall Hospital in Manchester. She […]

007’s real mission continues

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] 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 […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[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 […]

View from the bridge

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[…] Ivan Katchanovski’s ‘The far Right in Ukraine During the Euromaidan and then war in Donbas’.37 This essay shows that it was members of far right and neo- Nazi Ukrainian groups which did the Maidan massacre, leading to the resignation of the then pro-Russian president Yanukovych, which kicked the present crisis into gear. (Conventional accounts […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 93 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] paid a heavier price than most”. The fact he had no such contacts was clear to me in 1981, when Searchlight obtained evidence of a planned neo- Nazi bomb attack on the Notting Hill carnival in London, and Gerry and I had to use a convoluted route through a friendly journalist to get the […]

Blackmail in the Deep State: From the Bay of Pigs and JFK Assassination to Watergate

Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)

[PDF file]: […] acumen.6 He was, instead, an expert in covert operations. Robert Maheu started his career by joining the FBI in 1940 at the age of 23. After hunting Nazi spies during World War II, he tried launching a small business, which failed disastrously. Eventually he earned enough money from a private craps game to open […]

Newsinger on KItson

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[…] Winston Churchill donating £25. This was all part of the attempted Cold War rehabilitation of the German Army, denying that the German Generals had any responsibility for Nazi war crimes. Interestingly enough, von Manstein’s defence was led by a top British lawyer, the Labour MP Reginald Paget.1 Despite all this, von Manstein still got […]

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