Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] that aren’t connected to the internet using radio waves. (Update: Clarification — the NSA can access offline computers through radio waves on which it has already installed hidden devices.) It can intercept phone calls by setting up fake base stations. It can remotely access a computer by setting up a fake wireless connection. It […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] Ruby had no assistance from anyone in the Dallas PD in gaining access to the basement, and he shot Oswald on the spur of the moment (no hidden agenda). How do we know this? Simple: he left his dog unattended in his car, proof that he intended to return. these reviewers seem ever to […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] the US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] a highly unusual (almost subservient) relationship with his own PA, Lady Falkender, and erratic judgement in general. However: on pp. 74-75 we learn that, yes, there were hidden microphones in 10 Downing Street. Apparently Harold Macmillan asked MI5 to install them ‘during the Profumo scandal’. They remained in situ until 1977 when they were […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] brought unanimity? Lastly and, indeed, in the very last chapter of the book, Rosthorn demonstrates that the police deliberately withheld evidence from the defence team. If this hidden evidence had been used by the defence at the trial, alongside other evidence available at the time, it would have immediately indicated that the case against […]
Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] Cold War anachronism. Crozier and his ilk never believed in detente and thought that, if the Red Menace was less visible, it just meant it was better hidden. (This may just have been old men – and they were all men, I think – unable to change their minds . . . .) History […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] high office in the United States’. (pp. 205-208) Indeed, Smock just cannot believe that Trump’s conduct in so many areas has not finally ‘stripped away all the hidden things that made him appeal to 60 million Americans’. Writing on 5 August 2019, he hoped that millions of those who voted for Trump in 2016 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Calling the Israel lobby’s activities an open conspiracy is meant to convey a sense that there is a conspiracy – but part of it is visible, not hidden. Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[PDF file]: […] in the High Court last year. One of the by-products of that case,3 was the revelation of hundreds of files on British decolonisation generally, not only Kenyan, hidden away in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even […]