Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] unknown task behind the Iron Curtain. As we know now, the Soviets never trusted Oswald; the MVD (the Soviet version of the FBI) kept him under continual surveillance, both in Moscow and Minsk. If Oswald were a ‘controlled defector’, perhaps he did secretly go to either Iwakuni or Tokyo (or Miami Beach for that […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] essentially saw control in terms of depopulation, intensive research was devoted to manipulating indigenous social structures in the same way marketing was elaborated as a system of surveillance and intervention to control the population of industrialised societies. This was fostered by the process of professionalisation, especially in medicine and journalism. The outgrowth of professionalising […]
Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)
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[PDF file]: […] communicating and destruction of intercept material collected. The Court further observes that there is no evidence of any significant shortcomings in the application and operation of the surveillance regime. On the contrary, the various reports of the Commissioner have highlighted the diligence with which the authorities implement RIPA and correct any technical or human […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Assistance11 and David Stirling’s GB75 – had been formed to combat the ‘threat’ from the left.12 The Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal […]
Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
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[PDF file]: […] the trade unions, headed by someone who might be a Soviet stooge.10 Labour took office again in 1974 and there followed two years of talks of coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson’s retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] over five hundred people in all. One of the central mysteries was the massive LASO raid on the Spahn ranch, which would never have been approved without surveillance reports. And why, after LASO found stolen property, guns, drugs and underage girls, was Manson, a law-breaking parolee, released? The search warrant and crime report relating […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] he was appointed head of counter terrorism. During the official inquest into the 2005 attack it was revealed that, over a year before the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] world’s population seized upon by the intelligence-IT-media bloc that enabled it to implement an authoritarian state equipped with the full array of new digital capabilities for permanent surveillance. (p. 112) Professor van der Pijl does not believe there was any need for the great Covid shutdown. This is the first pandemic in history that […]