Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] . help, posed absolutely no threat to anybody (except, possibly, himself). He was, however, encouraged in his fantasies regarding Jihad by the undercover officers involved in his surveillance. One of the more ridiculous aspects was that, ‘Rahman said he couldn’t fund the attack because he was “broke and homeless” – but he handed over […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 84 (Winter 2022)
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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 […]