Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] is unclear why it was filed alongside 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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, involving the National Criminal […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] taxi. I expect that the North Koreans train their own spies in the use of multiple modes of public transport as an established tactic in mobile counter- surveillance trade-craft. What conclusion might they have come to on learning that it seems like Mr Gratton had used this exact same tactic? Mr Gratton is a […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (Oxford: OUP, 2017) . 1 have resisted a more full-blooded purge. Many Labour MPs would have opposed it. And a British McCarthyism […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] MI6, but claims that when he learned the immediate target was McCann, he decided to play a double game. Marks warned McCann that MI6 had him under surveillance and therefore probably knew about his smuggling operation at Shannon Airport.21 Although it was late 1972 when Marks was recruited by MI6, the agency would have […]