The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] proved fruitless, Manfred’s widow was forced to sign an affidavit stating that she would not tell anyone else what had happened; and Rene’s widow was kept under surveillance for months to see if she would reveal information to anyone else. The two women, who have exercised their right to privacy ever since, were also […]

Is a new ‘cold war’ coming?

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why […]

The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews

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[PDF file]: […] existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear […]

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[…] nose of Prince Mohammed bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: 8 9 or […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to stop Siddique Khan before 7/7 they are also admitting that they have no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014) FREE

[PDF file]: […] European countries can do this there can be no conceivable reason for not doing so other than it would shock the public as to the extent of surveillance, spying and the use of informants. MI5 is on record as destroying a vast number of these files – what has not been destroyed should be […]

Murder in Cairo

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[PDF file]: […] Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 16 Murder in Cairo, p. 76 6 and Holden, in East Africa and in the USA, were no more than surveillance of gay men rather than spies. But I could be wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever from Moscow Centre of any service that David Holden or […]

Murder in Cairo

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[…] Cahiers d’études africaines at . 14 15 16 Murder in Cairo, p. 76 6 and Holden, in East Africa and in the USA, were no more than surveillance of gay men rather than spies. But I could be wrong. There is no evidence whatsoever from Moscow Centre of any service that David Holden or […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] a situation where the pursuit of freedom from arbitrary power simply ends up producing more arbitrary power, and as a result, regulations choke existence, armed guards and surveillance cameras appear everywhere, science and creativity are smothered, and all of us end up finding increasing percentages of our day taken up in the filling out […]

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