Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] inducing Sukarno, on March 14, 1957, to proclaim martial law, and bring ‘the officer corps legitimately into politics’. (31) By 1953 (if not earlier) the U.S. National Security Council had already adopted one of a series of policy documents calling for ‘appropriate action, in collaboration with other friendly countries, to prevent permanent communist control’ […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] had become the new Conservative leader, Goldsmith met Wilson. Latching on to Wilson’s concerns that his office and home were being bugged, Goldsmith volunteered his own private security company to sweep both premises, apparently finding and removing a number of listening devices.(4) Wilson awarded Goldsmith a knighthood in his 1976 resignation honours list, ostensibly […]
Lobster Issue 15 (1988) £££
[…] Freeman, mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly handed the file to the Prime Minister, […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] the possible threats after 9/11’. Or take Stephen Holmes, a regular contributor to The London Review of Books and research director at the Center for Law and Security at New York University School of Law, who wrote: ‘….we can safely say that the following jumble of motives, seizing different actors at different times, contributed […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] They were the first company to envisage the possibility of business computers as early as the late forties. Computers at this stage were still matters of national security and much of the early research work was done by the Rand Corporation, the world’s first think tank, and originally a Cold-War front for USAF intelligence. […]
Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££
[…] a GRU agent, he couldn’t have acted with greater effectiveness.’ (p. 226) The facts are somewhat different. As early as mid-1961 Ward was being run by the Security Service officer, Keith Wagstaffe, then working for D1 (a), Operations, Counter-intelligence. The Service decided to try and ‘honeytrap’ Ivanov, for which Ward was most willing and […]
Lobster Issue 47 (Summer 2004) £££
[…] and/or real estate, which is one reason why the dollar is being kept artificially low. In America’s case, this went wrong because of the introduction of extra security measures which meant hours of queuing/discourtesy at US airports, a good example of a well-known PR pitfall: the inability to align the strategies and policies of […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
[…] to be believed. Where too is Brian Crozier? Since the Langemann papers identified Crozier as a Pinay Circle member who was engaged in setting up a ‘transnational security organisation’, little has been heard of the man or of the progress of the group. Crozier’s last known action — yet another attempt to discredit the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Geraghty. He argues quite strongly that the war in Northern Ireland is not really over, that the IRA is repositioning itself for another round, and that the security forces must be ready for this. I suspect that this interpretation of developments comes from the same sources as provided the details of electronic surveillance. It […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] of a souk to the next, faster than she could think. 22 Home Secretary David Blunkett sent an ‘unprecedented apology to Muslims living in Britain after the security services were accused of engaging indiscriminate “fishing expeditions” to try to find evidence of links to the al-Qaida terror group’. The Observer 25 August 2002. In […]
