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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] 2008. Dearlove’s evidence at the inquest can be found here: and .) Lee Sansum, a former Al Fayed bodyguard, also casts doubt on Dearlove’s claims: ‘ had surveillance on the Fayed house, and then in St Tropez where Diana and Dodi went on holiday….It means they were on the ground when she crashed. MI6 […]

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Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] was involved in paying bribes to Mr. D. Hatton in return for planning consents and preferential treatment re: land deals. Mr. Spencer was put under 24 hour surveillance by Liverpool drugs squad because of his association with Mr. Bobby McGorrin an alleged drugs dealer. Mr. McGorrin was associated with the Hughes twins described as […]

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Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] with Cheney to the COG bases outside Washington. What I argue is that they implemented now familiar programs which we know dated back to the 1980s: warrantless surveillance, warrantless detention, suppression of habeas corpus, and possibly the preparations for use of the U.S. Army in domestic security matters. The creation of NORTHCOM represented a […]

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The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££

[…] the formal pretext perhaps, was a tip to the FBI from what the Americans call a Republican ‘political operative’, Roger Stone.(3) The system then put Spitzer under surveillance worthy of a major terrorist threat and duly caught him with his pants down. Kow-towing to the moneylenders Every once in a while Polly Toynbee (apparently […]

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RIP The Fourth Decade and Probe

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] Assassination Archives Record Board, which has provided a huge trove of additional material — multiple Oswalds, formerly censored files from the House Commission in the 70s, Government surveillance of the Garrison investigation. The Fourth Decade had a great mix of scholarship and good writing – exemplified by ‘You Don’t Know Me But You Will: […]

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Miscellaneous Publications

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] interest only. However, in issue 65, October 1990, there is a 15 page summary of approximately 1000 pages of declassifed material on U.S. (predominantly State Department sponsored) surveillance of the New Zealand left and unions between 1945 to 1960. As far as I am aware, this is the most complete picture yet of such […]

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Obituaries

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997) £££

[…] Paul Foot and Fred Holroyd. Only weeks after publication, the book’s printers mysteriously burned down in Dundalk and for many years Lindsay was subjected to harassment and surveillance. Possibly for these reasons he had withdrawn from the public forum for some years past and developed a highly successful, hi-tech, academic book distribution business, still […]

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Decoding Edward Jay Epstein’s ‘LEGEND’

Lobster Issue 2 (1983) £££

[…] inaugurated and perpetuated the Cold War.” (17) A host of demons are being exorcised here: the revisionist historiography of the Cold War; Dallas; Watergate; Vietnam; Cointelpro; domestic surveillance run amok as everybody from the IRS downwards tapped, taped, planted, bugged, and (yes) assassinated – all of it swept away (‘fashionable mythology’) after the revelations […]

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Rogue State and Globalize This!

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] brisk summaries of his own earlier books (in 43 pages!); the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the CIA’s former psyops and political action programmes in light drag; surveillance and the Echelon story; the CIA and drug trafficking; and so on. In short, Blum has managed a kind of summary – with documentation – of […]

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Spooks – U.K.

Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££

[…] the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held by its left-wing is fundamentally correct. Coups, bugging, surveillance, wiretapping, Special Branch, moles – the first 60% of this reads like a precis of State Research.(With some conspicuous omissions: Agee/Hosenball and the ABC trial, both […]

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