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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext of ensuring “election integrity”. […]

What Did You Do During the War? The Last Throes of the British Pro-Nazi Right, 1940-45 by Richard Griffiths

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] on Fascism, which study the movement as a whole, Griffiths’ book concentrates on individuals, and how particular British Fascists or fellow-travellers reacted to the war with Germany, surveillance by the state, and the threat of internment. In his conclusion, Griffiths states that the responses to the changed situation after the declaration of war were […]

Kicora review

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[…] as a ‘defensive operation’ monitoring the phones of Northern Ireland journalists for at least thirteen years. PSNI Chief Constable Jon Boutcher admitted that the force had used surveillance tactics against 320 journalists and 500 lawyers. Four years before No Stone Unturned was aired, PSNI officers sought permission to monitor 2 Birney and McCaffrey, repeatedly […]

Area 51: An uncensored history of America’s top secret military base by Annie Jacobsen

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Orion: 2011, £20, h/b Built round interviews with participants, journalist Jacobson has written an account – not quite a history, really – of the U2 and Blackbird surveillance planes, and their significant role in the Cold War. There are lots of interesting snippets in here, she writes well and this is worth the time […]

Deep Kiss: How the Washington Post missed the biggest Watergate story of all

Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is unclear why it was filed alongside Johnson compiled a dossier on what he knew of Nixon’s treason, including documents gleaned from the CIA and FBI detailing surveillance of Nixon’s go-betweens. Johnson entrusted his so-called ‘X-Envelope’ to Walt Rostow, his National Security Advisor. On 26 June 1973, with Johnson now dead, Rostow handed this […]

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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 […]

Undercover killers at the BBC

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[PDF file]: […] crime by 3 4 ‘Our Friends in the North West: The Owen Oyston Affair’, Lobster 34 (Winter 1998). 2 using redundant Cold War MI5 spooks and electronic surveillance by GCHQ. The outcome of ‘intelligence-led policing’ by undercover spies and police ghost squads was a three-way ‘investigative train crash’ in Manchester, involving the National Criminal […]

An accidental tourist? A British connection to the death of Otto Warmbier

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017) FREE

[PDF file]: […] taxi. I expect that the North Koreans train their own spies in the use of multiple modes of public transport as an established tactic in mobile counter- surveillance trade-craft. What conclusion might they have come to on learning that it seems like Mr Gratton had used this exact same tactic? Mr Gratton is a […]

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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 […]

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