Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding connections at the Foreign Office and in British Intelligence’,15 the main conspirators were definitely adopting military/intelligence tactics in their surveillance. This is confirmed by the revelation that, ‘Oyston was now Murrin’s key target codenamed ‘T1’ in correspondence.’16 Michael Murrin may well have been familiar with the […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] the ‘National Stasi Agency’, another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is just a surveillance agency. The following paragraphs are just some of the many I noted and may give a sense of Roberts’ writing if he’s new to you. ‘Washington […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
[PDF file]: […] Atlantic. The British military are trying RFIDs in their warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
[PDF file]: […] input from MI5’s Jack Morton, who used his extensive counter-insurgency experience from India, Malaya and Northern Ireland to help restructure the intelligence agencies of President Junius Jayewardene. Surveillance of Tamil separatists was carried out not only in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the […]
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 […]