[PDF file]: […] gives us an account of the ‘D-notice affair’ of 1967, in which Pincher played a part, which is inadequate: a large element in it, involving the America NSA, the real subject matter, is backgrounded; and he underplays the extent to which some of the participants in the drama, notably Pincher and D-notice Committee secretary […]
The View from the Bridge (a kind of blog) Robin Ramsay Big stuff or disinformation? The most interesting and important collection of new information that I have seen this year is at . The jancom bit of the URL refers to the Justice for Asil Nadir Committee and there is pretty convincing evidence there that […]
[PDF file]: […] the media) and the entrapment of Bradley Manning that previously involved the private intelligence agency Project Vigilant, based in Florida.7 Founded by Chet Uber, together with former NSA officials and a former head of security at the New York Stock Exchange, Project Vigilant hires computer hackers to target dissidents in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia […]
[PDF file]: […] it? But what precisely is being denied here? No MI5 people were involved in the surveillance of Wilson. OK, surveillance is not MI5’s job: electronically GCHQ or NSA would do that (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, […]
[PDF file]: […] reported to MI5.6 Rimington denies running telephone intercepts, which may also be true. Guardian journalists were told by employees of GCHQ that, with its larger partner the NSA, GCHQ was surveilling the NUM and its attempts to hide its resources from state sequestration. (Again the Soviet ‘trace’ would justify this.)7 The role of encouraging […]
[PDF file]: […] citizens. Lastly, Norton-Taylor highlights procedural and administrative problems with the intelligence services. Over the last two decades resources have flowed into cybersecurity, and, by working with the NSA, the British security services are able to harvest enormous amounts of data. Quite shockingly, the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act allows anyone’s phone, emails or texts to […]
