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... . Formed to perform acts of sabotage and assassination behind enemy lines during during World War 2, the SAS evolved into a counter-insurgency regiment after the war. The 1969 Army Training manual stated that their tasks included 'the ambush and harassment of insurgents, the infiltration of sabotage, assassination and demolition parties into insurgent-held areas, border surveillance liaison with, and organisation of friendly guerrilla forces operating against the common enemy'. (3 ) Examples were found during the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the mid-fifties, when SAS officers commanded some of the infamous 'pseudo-gangs' that terrorised the civilian population;(4 ) in Borneo, where they used ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Oct 1989 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue18/lob18-02.htm
172. Re: [Lobster #54 (Winter 2007/8)]
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 54) Winter 2007/8 Last | Contents | Next Issue 54 Re:Terry Hanstock Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1 ) Only following orders Psychologist Stanley Milgram, famous for his research into obedience, may in fact have been funded by the CIA.(2 ) 'Since the agency regularly laundered MK-Ultra funds through other federal agencies ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-17.htm
... valuable, because books on MI5 are rare commodities, it gives a totally distorted picture of what MI5 is about. Reading West's account one has the impression that MI5 is primarily concerned with dealing with defectors and imaginary moles. Wright's Spycatcher topples that idea very easily. West fails to mention all those areas which made Spycatcher so interesting: the surveillance of political groups, of embassies, liaison with GCHQ, the use of computers, operations abroad, contacts with the CIA etc. The picture is less distorted when we look at MI6 - there are more sources. Quite rightly, Cavendish suggests that Anthony Verrier's 'Through The Looking Glass' is the best. It is choc full of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 01 Feb 1988 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue15/lob15-01.htm
... democracy- lost-a -report-on-the-fatally-flawed-2016-democratic-primaries/ 923891901070837> 2 The report's executive summary is at <http://www.ieo-imf.org/ieo/ files/completedevaluations/EAC%20-%20Executive%20Summary.pdf>. 'The IMF's surveillance of the euro area financial regulatory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks in some countries. ' 'In May 2010, the IMF Executive Board approved a decision to provide exceptional access financing to Greece without seeking preemptive debt restructuring, even though its ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 7 - 20 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... Agencies Homepage http://sparky.cis.smu.edu/hinds/intel.html Huge number of links to US intelligence agencies, departments etc. E.g . links to US Intelligence Community site, NRO, FBI, Depts. of State, Treasury, Defense, Fedworld, NSA, US Border Patrol, Ocean Surveillance. MILNET: Intelligence Agencies http://www.onestep.com/milnet/intell.htm 'A compilation of information on the worlds's intelligence agencies'. In practice, only US and Soviet, and links include to US Intelligence Community, DCIA report. Intelligence Watch Report http://www.awpi.com/ ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-26.htm
... assassinated in 2011 by soldiers overthrowing his government under US/NATO direction, criticised the fact that the only part of the UN Charter that expressed what all nations desire is the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) 'After the war people said, "If you can plan for war, why can't you plan for peace?" When I was 17, I had a letter from the government saying, "Dear ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 03 Jun 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-cold-war.pdf
... that the Americans were happy that the Unionists be abandoned in order to bring a newly united Ireland into NATO, one can understand how the Unionists, at least, saw this as a possible scenario. When the American files are opened to inspection ten or twenty years from now, it won't be surprising if, together with records of FBI surveillance of NORAID, there are also records of covert meetings between CIA and NORAID 'representatives'. The actual mechanisms of the British state Considering the deposing of Gough Whitlam as Australian PM in the mid-seventies because he had 'gone soft' on Amer ican 'bases' sited in Australia, it is now generally conceded that John Kerr the Governor ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Dec 2000 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue40/lob40-02.htm
... as the ultimate tail. In US-Israel relations, the issue came to a head during the Yom Kippur war of October 1973. As Pulitzer-winning New Yorker columnist and author, Seymour Hersh has established: 'Sometime in this period, the American Intelligence community got what apparently was its first look, via the KH-11 [surveillance satellite], at the completed and operational [Israeli nuclear] missile launchers hidden in the side of a hill.... The launchers were left in the open, perhaps deliberately, making it much easier for American photo-interpreters to spot them. '( 12) This took place under heavy US pressure on Israel to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-03.htm
... the Mafia notoriously say, 'things change' but it looked, by May Day, that deadlines were being set. Blair has set a framework for terrorism and security that Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of surveillance (such as identity cards) and the centralisation of all aspects of internal security will be in position for wider implementation. Ordinary citizens are going to be stopped, questioned and watched more regularly. What this means on the ground Even if the Prime Minister at the centre controls overall policy, whoever runs the Home Office will, under ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 01 Jun 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue53/lob53-17.htm
... Crash. Other pro-German sympathisers supported the Nazi regime as they believed it effectively combated the threat of Communism and blocked further Soviet expansion. Unlike other books on Fascism, which study the movement as a whole, Griffiths' book concentrates on individuals, and how particular British Fascists or fellow-travellers reacted to the war with Germany, surveillance by the state, and the threat of internment. In his conclusion, Griffiths states that the responses to the changed situation after the declaration of war were so varied, that it is impossible to make any generalisations. Nevertheless, the pro-Nazis did react in a number of general ways. Many Fascists, following Ben Greene in ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 6 - 10 Feb 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-during-war.pdf