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... catch up with the 11th African Division. It had already crossed the Italian Somaliland border. Since he was regularly switched between the forward brigades for the quick interrogation of prizoners and the examination of captured documents he saw all the major actions of the wide-ranging campaign; and when the towns of Mussolini's Italian African Empire were occupied, he took over security duties, contact with the local police and carabinieri, rounding up leading Fascist officials and checking for possible stay-behind agents. Young reckoned that he owed his intelligence career to Major General Santini, captured outside Addis Ababa. He was warned by Division not breach any Geneva Conventions in his interrogation but he found the General only too happy to give ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 61 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-05.htm
... decisions, when that was only one of their roles, and maybe not the most significant. The CIA played a major role in facilitating the take-over (and retention) by U.S. multinational capital of a goodly chunk of the so-called Third World in the post-war era.(4) A similar role was played by the British intelligence and security services in the British state's attempts to hold on to its empire in the post-war era.(5) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a considerable role in fragmenting and frustrating the British Left, and the FBI a similiar, albeit bloodier, role in the USA. I suspect we will find that throughout the Commonwealth ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 59 - 01 Dec 1997 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue34/lob34-08.htm
... as weapons inspection, which have a predetermined objective, when 'good' espionage can be exclusive, but is holistic, never singular. Other obfuscation includes the threat to government, including spooks, posed by 'do-it-yourself' diplomacy and/or justice: e.g. the campaigns mounted by Ken Bigley's family, prior to his execution in Iraq, to secure his release; or that of hotelier John Ward following the murder of his daughter Julie in Kenya. These personal tragedies have been presented in a vacuum, when the reality is that the campaigns organised by the families, and the conflicts of interests exposed, are examples of a trend.(2) 'The 52'There are two ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 58 - 01 Dec 2004 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue48/lob48-14.htm
104. Re: [Lobster #57 (Summer 2009)]
... detail now requested for the Pupil Level Annual Schools' Census and the development of the National Pupil Database (12) provide the state with a mechanism to engage effectively in a panoptic sort of the school population in an effort to render the identity of potential terrorists auditable.'(13) Radio days The first full account of the Radio Security Service. Established at the start of World War Two to interceptthe wireless messages of enemy spies, it achieved its greatest success through the work of its Analysis Bureau, headed by Hugh Trevor-Roper. This included the production of reports on Axis intelligence activities and resulted in its eventual independence from the SIS as the Radio Intelligence Service.(14 ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-29.htm
... 2001/ jan/20/politics.labour> 10 <http://www.ianfraser.org/chuka-umunna-pwcs-useful-idiot> Snowdenia and Labour In the wake of the Snowden/NSA/GCHQ revelations, Labour's Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper, dipped her toes into the water with a speech to Demos.11 Inter alia, amidst all the usual forelock-tugging about how wonderful our security and intelligence services are, she quoted with approval Andrew Parker, head of MI5, who said: 'the reason why things are secret is not because.... we want to keep them from the public. It is because we need to keep them from the people that we are investigating...the terrorists, spies ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 57 - 28 Apr 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster67/lob67-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... active moral imperative. The ghost of Marx: warfare, technology and the paradigm of 1914 For millennia, warfare has been an established and indeed, celebrated institution in the conduct of human affairs. As much recent scholarship has shown, conflict has been central to both technological/material advance and social cohesion.(3) Progress was not secured without a price, however. Writing in the 1850s, Karl Marx observed that at certain stages in history, economic and technological factors can outrun the social and political capability to manage and control them. And nowhere was this thesis more tragically vindicated than in the outbreak of World War One, when a combination of ill-understood technological advance and ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-03.htm
... millions of names and expertise in mobilising a vast network. The complex was a key institutional link in getting the Right behind the 'Soviet Threat' campaign with the same fervour shown for the so-called pro-family, anti Equal Rights Amendment, anti-gay, anti-abortion movements that arose in reaction to the 1960s. In March 1982 the British Coalition For Peace Through Security (CPS), based on its American counterpart (CPS-US), staged an Anglo-American conference which brought the new (to Britain) propaganda techniques of Viguerie to Britain. The speakers were Paul Weyrich, a leader of the New Right and Director of the Committee For Survival Of A Free Congress (CSFC). CSFC used direct mailing ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Feb 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue03/lob03-03.htm
108. Echelon [Lobster #35 (Summer 1998)]
... commissioned last year by the Civil Liberties Committee of the European Parliament. It contains details of a network of American-controlled intelligence stations on British soil and around the world, that 'routinely and indiscriminately' monitor countless phone, fax and e-mail messages. It states: 'Within Europe all e-mail telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency transferring all target information from the European mainland via the strategic hub of London then by satellite to Fort Meade in Maryland via the crucial hub at Menwith Hill in the North York moors in the UK.' The report confirms for the first time the existence of the secretive ECHELON system. Until now, evidence of such astounding technology ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Jun 1998 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue35/lob35-11.htm
... West Germany. One theory is that the Stasi 'caused [Eigendorf] to get intoxicated...and later shined a "sudden blinding light" into his eyes while he was driving.'(12) Diana's condition after the crash The American writer Gerald Posner claims to have seen photographs of Diana taken immediately after the crash: 'Surrounded by tight security in a clandestine location, I was shown low resolution images of pictures taken of a dying Diana still trapped in a crumpled Mercedes...Diana, in tight close-ups, looks remarkably uninjured except for a gash over one eye. Her head is rolled back slightly to the left and her eyes are closed- probably to shut out ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Jun 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue39/lob39-03.htm
... The Falklands are starting to assume a more global defence role." (Sunday Times 22 May 1985) An intriguing article in International Affairs (1983) by Andrew Hurrell disclosed a whole series of diplomatic and strategic moves which were happening in the South Atlantic before and at the time of the Falklands War. "The Politics of South Atlantic Security: a survey of proposals for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation" looked at the task of "relating western concerns for South Atlantic security to the interests and perceptions of the major Latin American states, particularly Argentina and Brazil." It seems to me it would be possible to outline a conspiracy in which the Falklands War was part of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 56 - 01 Sep 1985 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue09/lob09-02.htm
