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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££
[…] they lecture you in a mechanical voice, devoid of emotion, repeating endlessly their own market logic: it is the voice of Hazel Blears, speaking from the interactive surveillance cameras that will soon oversee all our lives. The Mr. Blobby face of Blears represents the next step in the Blairite evolution of Thatcher’s Britain, into […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] possible Kurdish origins of the Palme murder. Sanctioned by Justice Minister Anna-Greta Leijon, the two officers assisted a friend of the Minister’s, Ebbe Carlsson, in illegally obtaining surveillance equipment to continue investigations into the Kurdish PKK after the investigation had officially been abandoned. When Customs discovered SAPO agent Per Ola Karlsson with the equipment, […]