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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[…] bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. (Emphasis in the original.) The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community 8 9 or 10 11 4 showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica […]

Tittle-tattle

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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 […]

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

Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)

[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 […]

Secrecy in Britain

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[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

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[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 […]

The nature of the state and future challenges

Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)

[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 […]

A brief introduction to British W.W.II stay behind networks

Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)

[PDF file]: […] . 4 5 The potted history of MI5 available online at the National Archives is blunt: ‘In early 1939 the Service contained only 30 officers and its surveillance strength was only 6.’ For an indication of how MI5 approached their task, see who were of call-up age but in reserved occupations.6 The Auxiliary Units’ […]

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