First supplement to ‘A Who’s Who of the British Secret State’

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] AGENCY 80’S DEPUTY SEC. BBC RADIO MATES, MARY ROSAMUND (PATON) MI5 (C) DIVORCED WIFE OF MICHAEL MATES M.P. MAWHOOD, LT-COL. J.C. MI5 (P.281 ‘THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE IN AUSTRALIA’, FRANK CAIN ANGUS & ROBERTSON 1983) 1941 + VISITED AUSTRALIA TO HEAD INQUIRY INTO SECURITY SERVICE AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE MENDL, SIR CHARLES KT (1924) […]

Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)

[…] Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of surveillance (such as identity cards) and the centralisation of all aspects of internal security will be in position for wider implementation. Ordinary citizens are going to be […]

UK Eyes Alpha: the Inside Story of British Intelligence

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Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] truly odd thing is that this geo-political grovelling for intelligence crumbs didn’t do much good. Urban’s book is a long catalogue of failures. For all the global surveillance of the National Security Agency and its minor allies in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, British (that is US) intelligence were completely taken by surprise by […]

The Clash of the Icons

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] Laos during the Vietnam War. It is an enthralling read, the narrative rattles along, and the account of the climax of the mission and exfiltration of the surveillance team after a fire-fight with the Viet Cong is nicely done. It reads like a thriller – and would make a good movie, I suspect – […]

Truth Twisting: notes on disinformation

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] year or so. The first was in the memoir of Field Marshall (Lord) Michael Carver in which, though not naming MRF, Carver acknowledged the existence of ‘ surveillance operations by soldiers in plain clothes ……initiated by Frank Kitson when he commanded the brigade in Belfast, some of them exploiting ex-members or supporters of the […]

Disinformation: From Euros to UFOs

Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] being emitted from Manzano/Coyote Canyon area. Dr. Bennewitz also produced several photographs of flying objects taken over the general Albuquerque area. He has several pieces of electronic surveillance equipment pointed at Manzano and is attempting to record high frequency electrical beam pulses. Dr. Bennewitz claims these Aerial Objects produce these pulses…….. After analyzing the […]

Gone but not forgotten

Lobster Issue 19 (1990)

[…] writes that he made contact with MI6 in Vienna where, he claims, the signal to go ahead to Budapest was given. Wynne believed he was already under surveillance by the Soviets. His own memoirs are not completely clear on this point, but it seems he then went on to Bucharest on the 22nd., only […]

Spychips: How major corporations and government plan to track your every move with RFID

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Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7)

[…] The British military are trying RFIDs in their warehouses.(1) In an article written after the book was published, (2) the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’; and the US government has begun producing passports with […]

Is Libya still the prime suspect for the murder of WPC Fletcher?

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996)

[…] Libyan embassy plan to fire at the anti-Gaddafi demonstrators on that fateful day on 17 April 1984, wouldn’t this have been discovered by the authorities? After all, surveillance operations on the embassies of unfriendly states were common practice long before the early 1980s. A combination of phone taps, electronic bugs, decoded telegrams, photographs of […]

SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)

[…] a possible scenario. When the American files are opened to inspection ten or twenty years from now, it won’t be surprising if, together with records of FBI surveillance of NORAID, there are also records of covert meetings between CIA and NORAID ‘representatives’.   The actual mechanisms of the British state Considering the deposing of […]

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