Lobster Issue 49 (Summer 2005) £££
[…] (issues 39, 41, 43, 45) have followed Malcolm Kennedy’s case. The human rights organisation Liberty took his complaint about interference with his communications and other forms of surveillance and harassment, to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The IPT is the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: Literary Spying British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 James Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013, £55.00, h/b John Newsinger Smith’s book is an immensely valuable preliminary examination of the British secret state’s surveillance of ‘the left-wing writers and artists’ of George Orwell’s generation. As the author makes clear, the context was very different from the […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] Notice Committee), for a pre-publication view of material relating to the SAS. Harper Collins refused. In retrospect, Geraghty told the Observer, ‘its probable I had been under surveillance for some months’. He had some intimations of trouble and ‘got on with the normal, end-of-book weeding of files with more than usual urgency’. What had […]
Lobster Issue 23 (1992) £££
[…] from the HQMSU unit involved lied at the subsequent trials, partly to conceal the fact that members of Special Branch had been involved in an illegal cross-border surveillance operation. Enter Stalker, ‘high-flyer’ John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, was asked to investigate the circumstances which surrounded the fabrication of evidence […]
Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££
[…] collusion did indeed take place, much of it to be found in the careers and activities of two of the more prominent MI5 officers involved in the surveillance of inter-war fascism, Charles Henry Maxwell Knight and James McGuirk Hughes. Maxwell Knight was recruited to the Security Service by Sir Vernon Kell in April 1925 […]
Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££
[…] directorates and senior level representatives from Naval Space Command, Army Space Command and Air Force Space Command.(6) The regulations governing the UFO topic is USR 55-12, Space Surveillance Network (SSN) of June 1 1992, classified by multiple sources. ‘This regulation provides policy and guidance for operations of the worldwide Space Surveillance Network (SSN). It […]
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] Tribunal was established under s65 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which lays down the rules governing interception of communications, acquisition and disclosure of communications data, and surveillance. It is the only body that can hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping, and is also the […]
Lobster Issue 10 (1986) £££
[…] recent Director of the Berlitz School in Madrid was none other than CIA officer Alberto Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Gallego, who from 1961-72 was responsible for the photographic surveillance of the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City. This includes the period of “Oswald’s” visit. (On the Madrid item see Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) April 1985.) Surveillance pictures of […]
Lobster Issue 43 (Summer 2002) £££
[…] investigation, the tribunal also has the power to require assistance from a relevant Commissioner (RIPA s68(2)). RIPA sets up a new commissioner system, with the exception of surveillance commissioners, who continue under the Police Act 1997, and who now also have responsibility for overseeing the surveillance powers conferred under Parts II and III of […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Two more from the Disinfo people. At first glance […]
