Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] by inducing fear (hence “terrorism”).’3 Mr. Baltruweit is not the only former Canadian spook to refer to CSIS’s well-known illegal use of ‘counter intelligence tactics used for surveillance, intimidation and harassment’. In an article in Lobster 61, ‘CSIS and the Canadian Stasi’,4 Gareth Llewellyn, another former senior Canadian intelligence officer, describes his own persecution […]

Operation Chiffon by Peter Taylor

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.12 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]

Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose

Lobster Issue 64 (Winter 2012)

[PDF file]: Chemtrails: the proof and the purpose T. J. Coles In 1996 people across the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, began noticing unmarked aeroplanes operating over their towns. The aeroplanes laid long, thick, persistent trails across the sky. These came to be known as chemtrails (chemical trails). As the operations intensified, NASA, aviation authorities, and military […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]

The CIA, torture, history and American exceptionalism

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] Daniel Schorr in the Village Voice newspaper. Lest we forget, Church was marginalized, lost his Senate seat to a well-funded campaign, and, as we know, the domestic surveillance by the CIA and NSA and whoever else continued unchecked, at least until the Snowden revelations. Church’s committee was regularly lied to by its witnesses and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] our environment, with the risk of adverse impacts on flora and fauna. 5. 5G will increase energy consumption. 6. 5G will usher in a regime of total surveillance. 7. 5G will create an insatiable need for rare earth elements and more toxic e-waste. 8. 5G from space is a tragedy of the cosmic commons. […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 89 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] even denied a solicitor until she pointed out legal requirements. In the aftermath, she noticed putty all over the floor and believes her home was bugged, i.e. surveillance devices were implanted in the walls and concealed with wall putty. Sarah says her passport was confiscated without any police acknowledgement. As part of her bail […]

Taylor Operation Chiffon

Lobster Issue

[…] wearing plain clothes, and shot dead in highly controversial circumstances. This is wrong on at least two levels. Firstly, it was a combination of MI5 and Spanish surveillance that followed them across the border.13 Secondly, Taylor’s use of ‘confronted’ might imply that a clear warning had been given before each killing; but that certainly […]

The Watergate break-ins and the Howard Hughes connection

Lobster Issue 87 (2023)

[PDF file]: […] Hank Greenspun at the Las Vegas Sun. (Kalmbach testimony, 3 HJC 615-617). O’Brien later observed, ‘As the target of Watergate, I was at various times placed under surveillance, my telephones were wiretapped, my files were ransacked. But for me the stunning manipulation of the power of the IRS can be considered the most shocking […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)

[PDF file]: […] one story caught my eye. In the Daily Express (12 April) James Fielding began his story, headlined ‘MI6 covered up historic child sex abuse ring discovered during surveillance operation’, with this: ‘MI6 infiltrated the Kincora boys’ home in east Belfast to spy on William McGrath’.1 He continued: ‘The ex-intelligence officer said MI6 was ordered […]

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