[…] Courcy, and perhaps indirectly, on the Hess affair. The file in question, an MI5 document, PROKV4/58, shows that de Courcy first came to the attention of the Security Service in 1934 (without explaining why) and was under intermittent observation up to the outbreak of war with Germany. Thereafter he was ‘kept under close observation’, […]
[…] series of diplomatic and strategic moves which were happening in the South Atlantic before and at the time of the Falklands War. “The Politics of South Atlantic Security: a survey of proposals for a South Atlantic Treaty Organisation” looked at the task of “relating western concerns for South Atlantic security to the interests and […]
[…] services – almost nothing – and the post-WW2 geopolitical order, centrally the Cold War and American imperialism. Looking at the reading list for the intelligence and national security component of this course, what struck me was that almost none of its literature existed when I was here. I have read a few of the […]
[…] electronic kit to the US government would be to say: ‘You’re a loyal American. All we can tell you is: we can’t tell you.’ Wave the national security flag – and hint, if necessary, that his contracts might dry up. They didn’t do this. They began misdirecting him, confirming his UFO theories. We know […]
[…] which left little time for the authorities to adequately investigate the allegations – an excuse as feeble as that other establishment cop-out, “in the interests of National Security”. George Terry actually had little to do with the investigation which was carried out by two of his former subordinates: Chief Supt. Gordon Harrison and Chief […]
In 2002, in a class action, an American federal jury returned a verdict for the plaintiffs and against a company called Edsaco in a complex securities fraud case. (1) The case was interesting in two respects. Firstly, the plaintiffs’ plea through their lawyers that Edsaco was in fact ‘a front for organised crime’; secondly, the … Read more
[…] be what to do about our spooks? A sort of answer is being given in Greece where the (nominally) socialist administration is sacking large numbers of its security personnel. (Daily Telegraph 8 October 1984). With this and Papandreou continuing to make anti-Nato noises, somewhere in the Pentagon the Greek-coup computer model will be getting […]
[…] about the Provisional IRA’s historic turn, their recognition that military victory was impossible? There can be little doubt that one factor was the improved performance of the security forces, in particular of the intelligence and surveillance arms. So effective had they become that the journalist, Jack Holland, could write, with only slight exaggeration, that […]
[…] by U.S. multinational capital of a goodly chunk of the so-called Third World in the post-war era.(4) A similar role was played by the British intelligence and security services in the British state’s attempts to hold on to its empire in the post-war era.(5) It is becoming increasingly clear that MI5 have played a […]
[…] not meant to exist in liberal democracies; or, more to the point, amongst friends. According to Bamford, the industrial information that is picked up by the National Security Agency (NSA) is only used by the US government for general intelligence purposes, One is given to assume that this applies to GCHQ too. Bamford quotes […]
