Plot elements in the Colosio Murder Mystery

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Colosio. 27 February Murder of MANUEL SALVADOR GONZALEZ, 37, and ANTONIO TREJO, 35, on 1-5 near Gorman, Calif. The two men are believed to have been working security for the Colosio campaign, probably as bodyguards. Salvador is said by police to be a PRI and Mexican Government official, carrying documents indicating he was ‘in […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] to dictatorship.(2) In the strange amalgam of New Labour and state that emerged in 1997, one fundamental political purpose has been to ensure that a culture of security can emerge that can match its continental counterparts in powers and tools. The European project requires a ‘Frenchification’ of our security culture by people who are […]

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Right-wing Terrorists and the Extraparliamentary Left in Post-World War 2 Europe: Collusion or Manipulation?

Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££

[…] in Munich on 26 September, and perhaps the bombing outside a Paris synagogue on 3rd October (8) temporarily focused the attention of the press, the public, the security forces, and the coteries of intelligence-connected terrorism ‘experts’ on a subversive ultra-rightist underground that had never been truly banished from the European political scene. For years […]

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Malcolm Kennedy: secrecy ruling

Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] 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 only appropriate Tribunal for the purpose of certain proceedings under s7(1)(a) of the Human Rights Act 1998: […]

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The New European Order – judges, modernising conservatives and Tony Blair

Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004) £££

[…] agree on a lot more. Alongside this development, the thesis continues, a class of pan-European investigating judges is also emerging. It operates as an agent for a security and law enforcement programme that will come to serve the interests of the new order even if its relationship to it is currently ambiguous. Investigating judges […]

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Joseph K and the spooky launderette

Lobster Issue 36 (Winter 1998/9) £££

[…] That is, domestic due process had to be observed. The only possible legal ground for the expulsion without appeal which was effected would have been under the security provisos, and then only in a case of ‘properly established urgency.(4) None of the above could be justifiably applied to my expulsion. Hence, the silence of […]

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Web Update

Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of government. Articles on this legislation: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47814-2001Oct24.html www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33340-2001 Nov3. html UK: Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Bill www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/049/2002049.htm or www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/049/2002049.htm This Bill, revealed […]

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Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] meeting were Allen’s aide, Laurence Silberman, and Robert McFarlane, then an aide to Senator John Tower of the Senate Armed Services Committee and later Reagan’s third National Security Adviser and a key figure in Irangate. An earlier but less detailed report of this same meeting ran in the Washington Post on November 29, 1986 […]

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Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] conservative CDU/CSU parties called Brandt “a traitor to the fatherland”. Nazi propaganda that emigres were untrustworthy had a lasting effect. This unease even extended into the West’s security agencies. In 1967 the first of the CANZAB (Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Britain) conferences of the heads of the counter-intelligence departments, was held in Australia. MI5 […]

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Wallace on Pincher on Wallace

Lobster Issue 21 (1991) £££

[…] as he told the Civil Service Appeal Board, simply making formal an arrangement that had existed on an informal basis for several years. The MOD and the security services had, therefore, three years experience of my work with that unit before I was formally transferred to it on promotion. It is significant that neither […]

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