A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011)

[PDF file]: […] a former Commander in the RN with all kinds of secret knowledge about the war against Argentina, was talking to his anti-nuclear, peacenik aunt: full bore investigation; surveillance, phonetaps, mail intercepts, burglaries, harassment. Whatever it takes. And this would have begun before Murrell’s death. Green notes on p. 48: ‘I would have come under […]

The Defence of the Realm

Lobster Issue

[…] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]

The DRE newsletter (June – August 1963)

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)

[PDF file]: […] ban on such activities by telling the local US Customs Service office that his boat wasn’t fit to sail and needed repairs. The Customs Service obligingly reduced surveillance on Quiza’s vessel on 6 June and, of course, the raiding party immediately set off for Cuba. Naturally, the Customs office was ‘upset and embarrassed by […]

The rule of the tech lords

Lobster Issue 92 (2026)

[PDF file]: […] the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff London: Allen Lane, 2026, £25 h/b * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger London: Simon and Schuster, 2025, £20 p/b In 1996 there were no tech companies among the top five companies traded on US exchanges, […]

Spookaroonie!

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]

Newsinger Uproar

Lobster Issue

[…] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]

Whole World In An Uproar: Music, Rebellion and Repression 1955-1972

Lobster Issue 86 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010)

[PDF file]: […] communicating and destruction of intercept material collected. The Court further observes that there is no evidence of any significant shortcomings in the application and operation of the surveillance regime. On the contrary, the various reports of the Commissioner have highlighted the diligence with which the authorities implement RIPA and correct any technical or human […]

The miners and the secret state

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] the trade unions, headed by someone who might be a Soviet stooge.10 Labour took office again in 1974 and there followed two years of talks of coups, surveillance, disinformation and smears against members of the Labour government, climaxing with Wilson’s retirement.1 1 In the midst of this Mrs Thatcher became leader of the Conservative […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[PDF file]: […] 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 behind […]

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