Decoding Edward Jay Epstein’s ‘LEGEND’

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] substantially the same. Angleton believed that the Soviets have a ‘plan’, a blueprint for the take-over of the world. This ‘plan’ has become a feature of the propaganda of this New Cold War. It is in De Borchgrave and Moss’s The Spike, for example, and also in the less well known (but much better […]

Spy Master: The Betrayal of MI5

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996)

[…] any other outside contacts in respect of it. If we are approached, we listen only.’ Elsewhere, without offering any evidence, West claims that the brilliant WWII black propaganda expert, Sefton Delmer, was a Soviet agent. In the mid-1950s Delmer was expelled from Egypt for being an SIS agent. President Abdel-Nasser, who played footsie with […]

Feedback

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] Martha Kunzel) certainly were. Nicholas Goodrich-Clarke, cited by Matthews, draws a clear distinction between the OTO and avowedly racist groups such as the ONT. Crowley did do propaganda work for Viereck (who had nothing to do with the OTO), but there’s a good argument to be made that A.C. also snitched on Viereck’s activity […]

Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991)

[…] was used in 1961 when, in one of the dirtiest political campaigns in post-war Germany, the conservative CDU/CSU parties called Brandt “a traitor to the fatherland”. Nazi propaganda that emigres were untrustworthy had a lasting effect. This unease even extended into the West’s security agencies. In 1967 the first of the CANZAB (Canada, New […]

The politics of the organic movement – an overview

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] the organic pioneers were ignored, but this is not the case: they posed a threat to the vested interests of the chemical fertilizer companies, who maintained a propaganda campaign against them in the pages of the farming press. Eve Balfour’s book The Living Soil (1943) was widely reviewed and by 1948 was in its […]

Maria Novotny: From Prague With Love

Lobster Issue 2 (1983)

[…] David Floyd, the Telegraph‘s correspondent on Soviet Affairs. Floyd was on the books of the IRD. (21) IRD, run by the Foreign Office, was a Cold War propaganda outfit which had a close relationship with MI6; and especially with section IX, which dealt with the Soviet Union. Was the meeting set up by the […]

Sources

Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005)

[…] The BBC has been using these reports as if they were genuine news. In fact, the SSVC is entirely funded by the Ministry of Defence as a propaganda operation, which according to its own website makes a “considerable contribution” to the “morale” of the armed forces.’ On-line free sources There are two wonderful free […]

The Big Breach

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001)

[…] in education since this nonsense was introduced there. Tomlinson notes after this section that his immediate superior was passing as genuine CX what Tomlinson knew to be propaganda from one faction in the Balkans war: ‘ was blatantly ignoring my judgements as the officer on the ground so as to satisfy targets imposed by […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] Senate hearings document. Wick was also the organiser of the 1983 White House meeting (Lobsters passim) at which Rupert Murdoch and James Goldsmith became part of this propaganda effort. High on Wick’s agenda during his European trips was the building up of what the White House called a ‘successor generation’ of sympathetic European leaders. […]

The view from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004)

[…] in court they either might or might not be prepared to give evidence.’ I never decided whether I believed this or not. The high point of his propaganda activities was probably the publication in 1974 and 1979 of The Hidden Face of the Labour Party, a large tabloid-style pamphlet warning of the penetration of […]

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