[…] in case they heard her speak of John Tunney’s first Chappaquiddick phone call from her home outside San Francisco. (In S.F., Alioto made Police Chief Cahill a security guard at the phone company to sit on those phone call records. Back east, Publisher Loeb got Hoffa out of the clink by promising Nixon to […]
[…] similarly marginalised. Yet, as this book concludes, ‘calls are monitored, travel circumscribed, and torture is again being routinized (sic). All this is done in the name of security in the War on Terror.’ What was most worrying about the recent G20 protests in London was the way the police have been encouraged to distance […]
[…] even if the envelope in which it was received had no postmark! (21) Suspicious? Not half. ‘By not requiring the requester or the elector to provide social security numbers on ballots, the Election Reform Act ignores a potential fraud problem in absentee voting. Moreover, persons who present themselves at the poll must provide identification; […]
[…] – Eugene Deloncle and a certain Filliol – were such enthusiastic collaborators that they were in contact with General Max Thomas, who headed the Gestapo and S.S. Security Service (S. D.) forces in France in 1941. In October of that year, those same leaders arranged for the bombing of synagogues in Paris on behalf […]
See also Part 1 in Lobster 5 Ian Macgregor and AMAX We have followed one of Macgregor’s leads into the British Establishment; now we return to the man himself. He was born in 1912 in Kinlochleven and graduated from Glasgow University with a BSc in metallurgical engineering. He was a trainee manager at the British … Read more
[…] Canary Wharf. Yet long before the credit crunch, says Augar, there were dissident voices. Labour’s natural supporters, especially in the trade unions, were protesting about the in security and inequalities resulting from the growing power of private equity and the tax breaks for non-doms, a group Augar says accounted for half of the increase […]
[…] decided to officially declare its existence as the UDA becomes more weak, ineffectual and incapable of defending Protestant workers and working class homes against attacks by the Security Forces. Composed of more socialist orientated and class conscious members of the UDA, the Army came into being as a result of growing dissatisfaction and frustration […]
[…] inevitable. The world changes, priorities change and the people writing for Lobster change. When Lobster began in 1983 its chief focus was information on the intelligence and security services. There was almost no information on them in those days and every scrap seemed important. These days such information is available in abundance and I […]
[…] containing it is withheld from the Public Record Office in London for the next seventy years. According to Britain’s Foreign Secretary to release it would harm national security. That some such message was received by the Americans on 26 November was later confirmed by the Army enquiry which sat from July to October 1944, […]
[…] were the result of a ‘clerical error’. A Special Branch officer, flown out to India, later admitted that the erasures had been done ‘on advice from the security service’. (Eastern Eye 4 June) The second concerns Detective Sergeant Michael Hill of Hertfordshire CID who stumbled upon one of the many crooked deals being conducted […]
