MI5 speaks to the nation!

Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he was appointed head of counter terrorism. During the official inquest into the 2005 attack it was revealed that, over a year before the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such […]

Malcolm Kennedy: European Court of Human Rights judgement

Lobster Issue 59 (Summer 2010) FREE

[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) FREE

[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) FREE

[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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[…] Assistance10 and David Stirling’s GB75 – had been formed to combat the ‘threat’ from the left.11 The Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] 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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[…] Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).9 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea! His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.10 […]

Holding pattern

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016) FREE

[PDF file]: […] this exchange with Mr Challice, the Green Party’s sole MP, Caroline Lucas, revealed that she and London mayoral candidate Sian Berry had been subject to comprehensive secret surveillance by a police anti-extremism task force, the The National Counter Terrorism Police Operations Centre.1 That stalwart friend of the spooks, Professor Anthony Glees, was on hand […]

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[…] long report written by a or 1 1 corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).2 No conspiracy buff, Mr Shea. His 2004 document was titled ‘Israeli Surveillance of the Future Hijackers and FBI Suspects in the September 11 Attacks and Their Failure to Give Us Adequate Warning: The Need for a Public Inquiry’.3 […]

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