Murder in Cairo

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

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 […]

GArrick Timmi text

Lobster Issue

[…] 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 […]

Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD’s Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead by Andy Roberts

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)

[PDF file]: […] Trust, which had Victor Lownes, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy gopher, in tow as ‘tantric adviser’. Beresford later believed that Hollingshead was responsible for his being placed under government surveillance; by the time he did, though, Hollingshead had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] Tory Party’s biggest financial donors. See . 46 and imprison him.47 An article on The Intercept 4 8 listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler of Brockwell, member […]

Decades of Deceit: the Stalker Affair and its Legacy

Lobster Issue 90 (2025)

[PDF file]: […] Irish archives.12 What Stalker established in the cases he examined was that those targeted by the RUC SB, and paramilitaries operating on their behalf, were often under surveillance for lengthy periods prior to being killed. It was known that they were unarmed. It was also the case that not all of them were IRA […]

The Return of the Public and the Death of the Liberal Class

Lobster Issue 60 (Winter 2010)

[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue

[…] the Snowdon revelations of 4 5 6 The complete transcript, over 200 pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . the NSA/GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]

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