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... existing knowledge and trust – such as the public revelation of information that was formerly concealed, and which by its uncovering threatens to harm the relationship between groups, notably state and society. An example of the latter can be found in the public disclosures of WikiLeaks and, most recently, Edward Snowden's divulgences about the US National Security Agency's mass surveillance programmes. Coincidences such as these are regularly seen by conspiracy theorists as irrefutable evidence of a malign plot. ' (emphasis added) This is even less clear than her first conclusion. Coincidences? What is she talking about? Which coincidences are involved in the revelations of Wikileaks and Snowden? And is she trying to deny that Wikileaks ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 18 Oct 2014 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster68/lob68-view-from-the-bridge.pdf
... /FRED HOLROYD NEGOTIATIONS CIRCA 1986/7 MASON, TOWYN IRD 1960s NEAR AND FAR EAST NEWS AGENCY 80'S DEPUTY SEC. BBC RADIO MATES, MARY ROSAMUND (PATON) MI5 (C ) DIVORCED WIFE OF MICHAEL MATES M.P . MAWHOOD, LT-COL. J.C . MI5 (P .281 'THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE IN AUSTRALIA', FRANK CAIN ANGUS & ROBERTSON 1983) 1941+ VISITED AUSTRALIA TO HEAD INQUIRY INTO SECURITY SERVICE AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE MENDL, SIR CHARLES KT (1924) B. 1871 D. 14/2 /58 ST JAMES, REFORM MI6 (P .84 CHARLES HIGHAM "WALLIS" SIDGWICK & JACKSON 1988) 14- ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-07.htm
... colleague Carl Bernstein, setting out what a well-placed and unnamed source had told him about the Brookings affair. However, this second document has nothing to do with Ehrlichman and it is unclear why it was filed alongside 4 Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon's treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon's go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called 'X-Envelope' to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this dossier to the director of the LBJ Presidential Library, with a note recommending that it remain secret for another 50 years. It was ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 10 Feb 2018 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster75/lob75-deep-kiss.pdf
... Wynne's journey and expressed some misgivings', but 'it was thought he would be safe in Budapest, where the Russians were unlikely to strike at him. ' (5 ) Wynne writes that he made contact with MI6 in Vienna where, he claims, the signal to go ahead to Budapest was given. Wynne believed he was already under surveillance by the Soviets. His own memoirs are not completely clear on this point, but it seems he then went on to Bucharest on the 22nd., only managing to arrive for the last days of the Rumanian exhibition. He remembered arriving just as the Cuban missile Crisis was getting dangerously out of hand. (6 ) Wynne left ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 5 - 01 May 1990 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue19/lob19-02.htm
... the UK. The large transmitter found attached to the bottom of the table in the CPGB's central meetings room, displayed by ex CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews in the Independent (25 November 1989), illustrates Peter Wright's claim that 'By 1955....... the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants'; and with the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former party members, like the late Harry Newton, to inform on the British comrades. I do not want to argue that MI5 were running the CPGB. But it did allow the CPGB to ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 4 - 05 Feb 2013 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/caucus/clandestine-caucus.pdf