Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence which points to Churchill being prepared for the events of 10 May and therefore in a position to quash any attempted coup. He maintained an extensive surveillance of those suspected of harbouring proNazi, or pro-peace views. The Duke of Buccleugh was closely watched and indeed complained about this in letters to R. A. […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] a situation where the pursuit of freedom from arbitrary power simply ends up producing more arbitrary power, and as a result, regulations choke existence, armed guards and surveillance cameras appear everywhere, science and creativity are smothered, and all of us end up finding increasing percentages of our day taken up in the filling out […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] . 4 5 The potted history of MI5 available online at the National Archives is blunt: ‘In early 1939 the Service contained only 30 officers and its surveillance strength was only 6.’ For an indication of how MI5 approached their task, see who were of call-up age but in reserved occupations.6 The Auxiliary Units’ […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] story went, were immediately suspicious of Oswald, not least because he spoke no Spanish. The New Orleans DRE therefore turned him down. They had then supposedly mounted surveillance on Oswald and discovered that he was running a New Orleans chapter of the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee.93 During his chapter’s meetings (McCarthy told […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] German husband, the first having been killed in WW1. It seems that in the 30s MI5 automatically kept people with some sort of link to Germany under surveillance. No motive – political, financial or emotional – was found for her activities. 1 at Moscow (5 December 1941), that the war was now lost, or […]
Lobster Issue Clandestine Caucus (1996)
[PDF file]: […] CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews,315 illustrates Peter Wright’s claim that ‘By 1955 . . . the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants’. With the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former […]