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 […]

Print: Magazines and Catalogues

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] it. 150 West Canton St., Boston, Ma 02118, USA. 1 year’s overseas subscription is (US)$45.00. Dave Stamp Covert Action Information Bulletin No 31 is devoted to domestic surveillance in the US. Of particular interest to UK readers is a piece about the International Freedom Foundation (IFF) which is operating in Britain. The entire issue […]

The Pinay Circle and Destabilisation in Europe

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] possible Kurdish origins of the Palme murder. Sanctioned by Justice Minister Anna-Greta Leijon, the two officers assisted a friend of the Minister’s, Ebbe Carlsson, in illegally obtaining surveillance equipment to continue investigations into the Kurdish PKK after the investigation had officially been abandoned. When Customs discovered SAPO agent Per Ola Karlsson with the equipment, […]

The SAS, their early days in Ireland and the Wilson Plot

Lobster Issue 18 (1989)

[…] 1969 Army Training manual stated that their tasks included ‘the ambush and harassment of insurgents, the infiltration of sabotage, assassination and demolition parties into insurgent-held areas, border surveillance liaison with, and organisation of friendly guerrilla forces operating against the common enemy’. (3) Examples were found during the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the mid-fifties, […]

Hess, ‘Hess’ and the ‘peace Party’ (Book review)

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] was overridden by the implications of the Tyler Kent affair.’ Tyler Kent was a cypher clerk in the American Embassy in London. He had been under MI5 surveillance for some 7 months during which he had made contact with members of the Right Club, the hard-core pro-Nazis in London lead by the dotty Tory […]

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