Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)
[…] British Left and trade unions. While MI5 have been repeatedly portrayed as bumbling incompetents where Soviet subversion was concerned, the evidence we have is clear that their surveillance and penetration of the British labour movement has been far more extensive than the British Left realises. This is why we can’t see our files; and […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] ‘Oh New Zealand seems a long way away, so why take an interest?’ it should be noted that N.Z. is a member of the American-dominated intelligence and surveillance network of which Britain is another junior member, and what goes on down under can inform us about developments in this benighted isle. New Zealander Nicky […]
Lobster Issue 34 (Winter 1997)
[…] eye, heart and behaviour.’ The Department of Defense keeps track of medical research in this field. Minutes from TERP’s 1 May 1989 meetings recommends that ‘any medical surveillance criteria’ on the ‘vulnerability, survivability and Effects of Electro-magnetic Beams’ would play a crucial role in the outcome of research.(15) The U.S. Navy seems the most […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8)
[…] space of a fortnight in February 2006 with a computer being stolen and no trace of a forced entry left behind on either occasion. (4) Threats and surveillance Diana’s confidant Simone Simmons told Paget that in early 1997, Diana allowed her to listen in on a telephone call she had received. ‘Simone Simmons heard […]
Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007)
[…] they lecture you in a mechanical voice, devoid of emotion, repeating endlessly their own market logic: it is the voice of Hazel Blears, speaking from the interactive surveillance cameras that will soon oversee all our lives. The Mr. Blobby face of Blears represents the next step in the Blairite evolution of Thatcher’s Britain, into […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1)
[…] by the police – as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security […]