Directory of British Political Organisations, 1994

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] are included. Similarly useful are listings for now defunct but historically significant groups like Sir Oswald Mosley’s Union Movement, the British and Irish Communist Organisation (BICO), Popular Propaganda (a libertarian conservative group) and the Committee for a Free Britain. Entries attempt to provide current addresses, dates of establishment, names of leading lights and other […]

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The Case Against Israel, and, The Power of Israel

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] the parameters to US foreign aid in the Middle East. The overseas networks play a major role in shaping the internal debate on US policy toward Israel. Propaganda associating Israeli repression of Palestinians as the righteous response of the victims of the Holocaust has been repeated throughout the mass media. President Ahmadinejad’s suggestion that […]

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The final testimony of George Kennedy Young

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] we have our methods.’ He was promoted local (unpaid) captain. After the surrender of the last Italian garrison at Gendar he spent 1942 running cross-frontier intelligence and propaganda against French Somaliland which was still in Vichy hands. By then he had probably more practical experience of all aspects of field work than any other […]

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The Enemy Within (Whitehall)

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] 1971 version the IRA was actually trying to buy the arms. (7) The similarities lie in the way the British state used the arms find to make propaganda. Fig. 1 Illustration shows Colin Wallace posing, circa 1972, in a pile of British Army weapons, allegedly seized from the IRA (but actually British Army property) […]

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The Kincora scandal and related subjects

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] 14 March 1982, p. 14. Wallace whoppers. the trail of trouble from the Kincora smear king. — John Carey, Sunday World, 7 July 1985, p. 24. Black propaganda and bloody murder — Frank Doherty, Magill, December 1986, pp. 24-28. MI5 — the Irish File — Phoenix 19 December 1986 pp. 3 and 11. Wallace […]

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Lying about Iraq

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] ‘dossiers’ were run past the JIC is one of the interesting unanswered questions. 8 Gaby Hinsliff, Martin Bright, Peter Beaumont and Ed Vulliamy, ‘First casualties in the propaganda firefight’, The Observer, 9 February 2003. 9 ‘It was the refusal of Britain’s spies to disclose what they knew about their Iraqi counterparts that led to […]

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Deadly Illusions

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Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] research and flights to and fro between Moscow, London and the United States. Who is reading this stuff? Well, there is a group of a few dozen Anglo-American scholars of espionage history, many of them witting or unwitting carriers of state propaganda — the “useful idiots’ of NATO. Apart from them, I have no idea.

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Books forthcoming

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] has written for the new Encounter magazine. Michael Scammel, who has just published a massive biography of Solzhenitsyn, is turning to a study of the CIA-funded anti-communist propaganda operations of the 1950s. No doubt this will include Encounter ….. September should see the publication of Henry Hurt’s Reasonable Doubt: the assassination of John F. […]

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KAL 007: 16 Years Later

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] to scab together a televised tape of the exchanges that an apparently unwitting Jean Kirkpatrick was to show the UN’s Security Council. The reaction to the Administration’s propaganda initiative were immediate. The political strength of the peace movements in both England and Germany, muscular enough to have kept the U. S.’s Pershing II and […]

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MacV-Sog Command History: Annexes A, N, and M (1964-66)

Lobster Issue 26 (1993) £££

[…] 49-50); and, most amazing of all, for an outfit so concerned with intelligence and dirty tricks, there were shortages of everything from photo-interpretation equipment to transmitters for propaganda broadcasts (pp. 83-84 and 86). Indeed, the American contingent of SOG numbered just 132 military personnel and 14 civilians at the start of 1965 (p. 70).’ […]

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