The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] guess would be that the Kennedys paid her to disappear.6 Well ye ken noo Slight stirrings in Parliament about the Snowdon revelations of the NSA/ GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]

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[…] Shea Memorandum, a long report written by a corporate lawyer, Gerald Shea (Yale, class of ’64).25 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’.26 […]

Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad by Michela Wrong

Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)

[PDF file]: […] researching and writing her book was, she tells us, ‘Fear’. She notes that she had been warned that the Rwandan regime kept its enemies and critics under surveillance. Nevertheless she surprised when it was an email from Rwanda’s high commissioner in London in 2015 that opened up her computer to ‘a steady stream of […]

Malcolm Kennedy (1946-2013)

Lobster Issue 67 (Summer 2014)

[PDF file]: […] prison to start rebuilding his life by setting up a small removals business. This became increasingly difficult due to what he alleged was ‘highly intrusive and unlawful surveillance’ including interference with his phones, mail and emails. This had the effect of blocking him from going about his everyday affairs whilst preventing potential customers making […]

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[…] The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what the […]

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 […]

Team mercenary GB: Part 1 – the early years

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] input from MI5’s Jack Morton, who used his extensive counter-insurgency experience from India, Malaya and Northern Ireland to help restructure the intelligence agencies of President Junius Jayewardene. Surveillance of Tamil separatists was carried out not only in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)

[PDF file]: […] Atlantic. The British military are trying RFIDs in their warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, 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’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[PDF file]: […] post-mortem and the following paragraphs are from the executive summary.2 The italicised bits are my comments. 1 2 The report’s executive summary is at . ‘The IMF’s surveillance of the euro area financial regulatory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks […]

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