Electronic Privacy and the Encryption Debate

Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££

[…] ensure new digital telecommunication systems do not hinder surveillance capabilities, and requiring the installation of monitoring capacity in these systems for national security/law enforcement purposes: ‘Acting in secret and without parliamentary knowledge or government supervision, the FBI through ILETS has since 1993 steered government and communications policy across the world. In the shadows behind […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] effectively reduce the political influence of TNCs, European economies must be weaned from their dependence upon these corporations. Statewatch Statewatch has published a collection of 60 hitherto secret European Union documents and reports on policing, immigration, asylum, the Trevi group etc. Key Texts on Justice and Home Affairs in the European Union, Vol 1, […]

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Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] the American media, its ownership, control and biases. No information on the cost of foreign subscriptions is given, so write and ask if outside the US. Top Secret is the English-language version of the German parapolitical magazine Geheim. So far only the first issue, 0/88, has come our way, though a second issue is […]

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Ratlines: how the Vatican’s Nazi networks betrayed Western intelligence to the Soviets

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] author of Sanctuary! Nazi Fugitives in Australia, was largely responsible for convincing the Australian government to reopen their war crimes investigations; John Loftus, author of The Belarus Secret is a former attorney for the US Justice Department Office of Special Investigations who investigated the activities and war crimes of Byelorussian Nazi collaborators. In Ratlines […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££

[…] since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help “create the conditions for the removal of Hussein from power”. Working under this extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name – the Iraqi National Congress – and served as their media guru and […]

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The Pinay Circle

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

[…] is extracted from the book Sniffing Planes, Extreme Right, Intelligence and J. Violet by Pierre Pean (Editions Fayard, France, 1984). This, in turn, is based on a secret report written by a West German intelligence official, Hans Langemann, which was published in 1980 by Der Spiegel. Langemann was, at the time he wrote his […]

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Contemporary British History 1931-61: politics and the limits of policy

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] a covert operations adjunct to US foreign policy. (Aldrich is one of the handfuls of British academics who are trying to incorporate the activities of the British secret state into our post-war history and teaches a post-graduate course on the intelligence services et al at Salford University.) Just how important the secret intelligence dimension […]

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Pinay 2: Jean Violet

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] parapolitical activities of Jean Violet go back to the 1930s, when Violet was supposedly involved with a violent quasi-Masonic movement going under the title of the Comite Secret pour l’Action Revolutionnaire, or CSAR. CSAR was part of a larger far-right phenomenon in pre-WW2 France, the conspiratorial members of which were referred to as Cagoulards, […]

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Miscellaneous: With Friends like these

Lobster Issue 31 (June 1996) £££

Nicholas Bethell’s memoir Spies and Other Secrets (Viking, London, 1994) includes a curious section in which Bethell describes how in 1970, after he had been involved in the first publication of Solzhenitzen’s Cancer Ward in the West, he was attacked by a curious alliance of the left, Private Eye, and various people in and close … Read more

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The smearing of Colin Wallace

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] is able to make this preposterous claim only by completely ignoring the fact – which he must know very well – that Colin Wallace worked for the secret psychological operations unit, Information Policy. Broderick’s 1976 statement to the Civil Service Appeals Board mentioned Information Policy, letting the cat out of the bag. As a […]

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