Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] italics).(2) Reviewing the same book, a former army officer who served in Northern Ireland, Alexander van Straubenzee,(3) describes Nairac as having been ‘a member of the Army Surveillance Unit which became 14th Intelligence and Security Company (14th Int)’ – a new name to me for the unit discussed above.(4) A woman called Oonagh Flynn, […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] break-in at Exner’s LA apartment by I. B. Hale, head of General Dynamics corporate security on August 7, 1962, which was observed by the 24 hour FBI surveillance on the president’s mistress. Hersh admits being unable to establish how the ailing arms corporation had come across this information which, it is claimed, enabled pressure […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] off in London and elsewhere in Europe. The British state appeared to believe that Christie was at the heart of it. But since they had him under surveillance much of the time, they must have known this wasn’t true. For much of this period he was working long hours as a gas fitter, being […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999)
[…] insist that were not recording any images at the time .’ Sancton and Macleo op. cit. p.235 According to NBC ‘….. Paris has the most sophisticated video surveillance system of any city in the world. While not every camera is monitored, all cameras record to videotape. Tapes are saved for 2 days in the […]
Lobster Issue 48 (Winter 2004)
[…] Chaos.’ But Operation Phoenix, about which Valentine has written a widely-praised book, involved identifying and assassinating supporters of the North Vietnamese, while Operation Chaos was a domestic surveillance and counter-intelligence operation. But still: these quibbles aside, this big book (500 plus pages) is a fascinating collection of stories, and adds some major pieces to […]
Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)
[…] under threat from the Left. Notable examples are the anti-Bolshevik panics of the 1920s, the attempted destabilisation of Labour governments in the 1960s and 1970s, and the surveillance of trade unionists (notably the striking miners) in the 1980s. This is an important historiographic breakthrough which Porter, in view of his previous works, is ideally […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
[PDF file]: […] as being motivated by the highest of ideals: above all his belief that our online privacy needs to preserved, not secretly mined by seemingly unaccountable US Government surveillance agencies. He tells us his act was driven by a deeply moral decision to quite simply ‘tell the truth’ because the ‘abuses I witnessed demanded action’. […]