Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
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[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 […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] And as former head of the U2 programme, nobody knew better than Bissell that the Soviets were not a 3 threat to the US. Prior to those surveillance flights which began in 1957, what was happening behind ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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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 […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence which points to Churchill being prepared for the events of 10 May and therefore in a position to quash any attempted coup. He maintained an extensive surveillance of those suspected of harbouring proNazi, or pro-peace views. The Duke of Buccleugh was closely watched and indeed complained about this in letters to R. A. […]
Lobster Issue 71 (Summer 2016)
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[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’ […]