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Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££

[…] on 26 Oct. 2001, greatly expands the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor email and internet traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of […]

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Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] of the lowest form of human behaviour.’ (Redden, p.5) Redden’s Snitch Culture is an enormously detailed and documented account of the history and practice of the state’s surveillance of the domestic population in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their […]

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]

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The state in politics: Wallace, Holroyd and Lobster

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] proof of Soviet contacts with the MPs – not the kind of information which could be obtained by sources within the Parliamentary Labour Party, but by phone-taps, surveillance etc. It is much more likely that MI5 refused to help the Party leadership expose left-wing MPs links with the Soviets – presuming that there were […]

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In camera injustice

Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££

[…] in 1985 that I was granted a low level of security clearance. Throughout the 1980s I had the distinct feeling I was under some sort of covert surveillance, through my awareness of odd phone calls, and strangers acting suspiciously near my home. Later, following my trial, it was admitted that MI5 had put me […]

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Operation Julie revisited: the strange career of Ron Stark, parapolitical alchemist

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

[…] Kemp and Christine Bott.(14) Lee discovered that an investigation as far back as 1971 had been getting near the truth but had collapsed when the gang under surveillance by the Thames Valley Squad and Customs were robbed of money and drugs by officers of the Met.! According to Detective Constable Martyn Pritchard of the […]

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Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££

[…] Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service – […]

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Two Sides of Ireland (Book reviews)

Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

[…] “the badger” is responsible for scheduling the Gardai border patrols. Through “the badger’s knowledge of Gardai operational details, the RUC’s paramilitary Special Support Unit and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted […]

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Terrorism and Intelligence in Australia

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – […]

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Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998) £££

[…] European Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control […]

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