Trump, the US Military and the American Empire

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: Trump, the US Military and the American Empire Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos Peter Bergen New York: Penguin Press, 2019 Holding the Line: Inside Trump’s Pentagon with Secretary Mattis Guy M. Snodgrass New York: Sentinel (Penguin Random House), 2019 The Assault on Intelligence: American National Security in an Age of Lies Michael […]

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 […]

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 […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

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[…] Gibbs) came to see me and tell me of his discussions in Holland with the German General Wenninger about possible peace terms. The General said that the Nazi Party felt themselves hemmed in and would welcome a face-saving peace. Colville was private secretary to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to whom Dunglass was Parliamentary Private […]

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 […]

View from 92 copy

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[…] 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 […]

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