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... the anti-subversion lobby, and they used his surprise resignation as the basis of some disinformation about his (non-existent) links with the KGB. Meanwhile the Daily Mail revealed the bit which the Cabinet Office, not MI5 (says the Mail) had insisted Christopher Andrew omit from his history of MI5: 'MI5 used hidden electronic surveillance equipment to secretly monitor 10 Downing Street, the Cabinet and at least five Prime Ministers....for nearly 15 years, all Cabinet meetings, the offices of senior officials and all visitors to the Prime Minister – including foreign leaders 14 'Obama and the Steady Drift to the Right', Z Magazine, March 2010 15 < ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 21 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-094.pdf
... 4:44 am; which is to say, while it was still dark, and hours before Guyanese Defense Forces arrived at the commune. How the Agency was able to do this is uncertain - the matter remains classified. Satellite imagery is only the most remote possibility, given the darkness and the low-priority of Guyana as a surveillance site. Radio intercepts are a second, more likely, possibility; at present, however, it is unknown if there were transmissions from Jonestown that would have permitted an eavesdropper to report the occurrence of 'mass suicides'. A third possibility, and the one that seems most likely, is the existence of a CIA officer or agent ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 20 - 01 Jun 1999 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue37/lob37-01.htm
... (7 ) When the Brandt-led SPD alliance with the Liberals was elected to office in October 1969, relations between some sections of the BND (West Germany's equivalent of MI6) and Bonn reached a new low. Many of the leading SPD figures, including Brandt when he had been Mayor of West Berlin, had been placed under surveillance by the BND. In 1967, BND founder and head General Gehlen had commissioned an inquiry into Egon Bahr. An Ambassador in the Foreign Office and a close friend of Brandt's, Bahr was believed to have contacts in East Germany and other Eastern bloc states. One BND report showed that Brandt's adviser, State Secretary Leo Bauer, who ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 18 - 01 Nov 1991 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue22/lob22-05.htm
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 4) April 1984 Last | Contents | Next Issue 4 Western Goals LA Police Settle For $1 .8 million Leonard Doyle, Guardian 24th February 1984. Sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for illegal surveillance of private citizens, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) settled out of court. LAPD's Public Disorder and Intelligence Division were accused of 'organising a massive spying operation providing right-wing organisations with a sophisticated computer and handing on extensive files on suspects. ' Here is the tip of an enormous iceberg. The best (brief) account we know of is February's issue of ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Apr 1984 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue04/lob04-03.htm
... Edited by Colin Hughes London: The Guardian, 2010, £8 .99 The End of the Party: The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, £8 .99 (UK) Tom Easton It's too early to say much about the Lib-Con government, but this collection ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 15 Dec 2012 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster59/lob59-187.pdf
... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 57) Summer 2009 Last | Contents | Next Issue 57 Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b , $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Austral-ia's leading academic historian of intelli-gence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antece-dents – more or less equivalent to the UK's MI5 – shows what you might have ex-pected: the spooks were allied with the conservatives, ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Jun 2009 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue57/lob57-44.htm
... a raid on Solomon's London home and missed some documents he had concerning Leary's secret negotiations over a contract for his book On the Run. Godfrey and CDIU lost track of Richard Kemp and Christine Bott.(14) Lee discovered that an investigation as far back as 1971 had been getting near the truth but had collapsed when the gang under surveillance by the Thames Valley Squad and Customs were robbed of money and drugs by officers of the Met.! According to Detective Constable Martyn Pritchard of the Julie squad, the 1971 investigation did reveal enough to register suspicions 'that a big LSD factory was in business. '( 15) Cue the spooks That the security services regarded LSD as ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 1996 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue32/lob32-03.htm
... respected academics has a lot to tell us about how Britain is run. We are told, for example, that at a CBI dinner in December 1971, the Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, 'tapped or bugged'. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen's Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the dispute twice a day. According to Martin Furnival Jones, MI5's Director, no previous Prime Minister had ever shown 'such enthusiasm for regular up-to-the-minute reports during an industrial dispute'. Wilson was particularly pleased ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Oct 2016 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/free/lobster72/lob72-black-door.pdf
... prospects. But after 1980 my work situation stabilised, and I simply got on with life, assuming I had lost security clearance forever. I had no idea when I joined Hirst Research Centre in 1985 that I was granted a low level of security clearance. Throughout the 1980s I had the distinct feeling I was under some sort of covert surveillance, through my awareness of odd phone calls, and strangers acting suspiciously near my home. Later, following my trial, it was admitted that MI5 had put me under surveillance from 1977 until 1992. In January 1990 I was lured into an industrial espionage operation by a man calling himself Harry Williams. He was very persuasive and bribed ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2006 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue52/lob52-11.htm
... 'The other [tapes] are unaccounted for. ' (P136) Lord Stevens appears to have been affected personally by 'evaporating evidence' syndrome. His offices were burgled twice in the 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 a male say, "Don't meddle in things that you know nothing about because you know accidents can happen". [Emphasis in original] She stated there was an inflection in the ...
Terms matched: 1 - Score: 17 - 01 Dec 2007 - URL: http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue54/lob54-28.htm
