The murder of Hilda Murrell: ten years on

Lobster Issue 27 (1994) £££

[…] them, and excluding what Green actually does believe. In Otter’s case, Davies mocked him, saying that his ‘latest theory is that Miss Murrell was not only under surveillance before her murder but that on the day of the crime she attracted two different hit squads who turned up to kill her and ended up […]

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Steady as she goes: Labour and the spooks

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] British Left and trade unions. While MI5 have been repeatedly portrayed as bumbling incompetents where Soviet subversion was concerned, the evidence we have is clear that their surveillance and penetration of the British labour movement has been far more extensive than the British Left realises. This is why we can’t see our files; and […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] ‘Oh New Zealand seems a long way away, so why take an interest?’ it should be noted that N.Z. is a member of the American-dominated intelligence and surveillance network of which Britain is another junior member, and what goes on down under can inform us about developments in this benighted isle. New Zealander Nicky […]

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Publications and Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££

[…] Spring 1983 (Sage Publishing, London) The entire issue is devoted to essays on The American Corporate Network, edited by the distinguished American ‘elite sociologist’ William Domhoff. Articles Surveillance In the Academy Sigmund Diamond, American Quarterly, Spring 1984. “In 1927 Yale University secretly established an investigative apparatus for carrying out certain parietal functions. By the […]

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Back to the future: the 1970s reconsidered

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] the chief focus of the paranoid right’s conspiracy fantasies, the Labour Cabinet was regarded with suspicion and many of its members, notably Wilson himself, were subjected to surveillance, burglaries and disinformation in this period. The anti-communist hysteria encompassed the formation of private militias – the so-called private armies – by former intelligence and military […]

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The military use of electromagnetic, microwave and mind control technology

Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997) £££

[…] eye, heart and behaviour.’ The Department of Defense keeps track of medical research in this field. Minutes from TERP’s 1 May 1989 meetings recommends that ‘any medical surveillance criteria’ on the ‘vulnerability, survivability and Effects of Electro-magnetic Beams’ would play a crucial role in the outcome of research.(15) The U.S. Navy seems the most […]

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Operation Brogue

Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££

[…] coup, include: the planting of false stories about Haughey in the British press. Irish Counter Intelligence (CI) put the MI5 officer responsible for the false stories under surveillance. But some of the CI people were the Special Branch personnel recruited by MI5 (see 1 above). When MI6 offered a £100,000 bribe to one of […]

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‘Privatising’ covert action: the case of the Unification Church

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] recruitment of vulnerable targets, initial deception concerning group affiliation and purposes, extreme forms of peer-group pressure, isolation from mainstream society, sensory overload, sleep and protein deprivation, constant surveillance, enforced lack of privacy, and ideological indoctrination — that serve to set cults apart from more ordinary organizations in modern industrialized societies. (4) And it is […]

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Coach into pumpkin: some problems with Paget

Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

[…] space of a fortnight in February 2006 with a computer being stolen and no trace of a forced entry left behind on either occasion. (4) Threats and surveillance Diana’s confidant Simone Simmons told Paget that in early 1997, Diana allowed her to listen in on a telephone call she had received. ‘Simone Simmons heard […]

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Miscellaneous: Gemstone. Workers’ Revolutionary Party, MI5 and Libya

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] tried the proper channels.) Or how to find any of the MI5 and Special Branch men who infiltrated and surveilled them? (I’m guessing at the infiltration: the surveillance was obvious.) The main groups/men were: Negro Welfare League (Arnold Ward/Peter Blackman); Colonial Information Bureau (Ben Bradley/Reginald Bridgeman/Desmond Buckle); International African Service Bureau, later Pan African […]

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