[…] seems 17 other people did as well. Some of Baker’s sources are hard to assess (see above). Someone, retired, ‘with connections to both the police and the security services’, takes Baker for a glass of wine in a ‘rather nondescript club’ and is warned in a phone call that he could be bankrupted by […]
[…] 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 – more or less equivalent to the UK’s MI5 – shows what you might have expected: the spooks […]
[…] Minister Bill Hayden to make a highly publicised “secret” dash, a few days later, across the Tasman to talk with David Lange about Libya, within the high- security confines of Ohakea airbase. After Walters’ visit to Samoa, the country’s Prime Minister said that thanks to the Anzus breakdown, Samoa and Tonga could rely no […]
[…] in Liverpool is so great that there is an involvement by Special Branch because, and I believe I am right in quoting, it has implications for national security. I gave them specific items of information concerning Derek Hatton and other individuals in Liverpool. They went down, Hounam went down, and checked out the information […]
[…] star chamber where he wasn’t allowed to call his own witnesses, cross-examine anyone or to be legally represented.’ In letters to the House of Commons Intelligence and Security Committee and John Wadham of Liberty, who has been acting for him, Tomlinson alleged that SIS planned to assassinate the Serb leader Slobodan Milosevich in 1992 […]
[…] of other extra-legal organisations. Nor do I believe that we should be any the less outraged when those who operate on behalf of the British state and security forces go beyond the law or the conventions of decency, as has occasionally happened. Either we condemn all violence or we are not placed to condemn […]
[…] soon revealed (and confirmed years later in Alvin Snyder’s 1995 book, Warriors of Disinformation), that the first official transcript of Soviet air-to-ground communications distributed by our National Security Agency (NSA) had been purged of the Soviet fighter pilot’s declaration to his controller, ‘Now I will try my cannons .’ Axed also by our NSA, […]
[…] response. Some of my FOIA requests with the CIA have been pending for three years. Back in Whitehall After my letter of August 18, 1994 to the Security Service Tribunal requesting an investigation of the continuous harassment my family and I have suffered, the Tribunal Secretary wrote on August 24, ‘I will arrange for […]
[…] Investigatory Powers Tribunal. The IPT is the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to conduct by the Security and Intelligence agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping. It also deals with claims under the Human Rights Act 1998, s7(1)(a) that a public authority has acted in […]
Miscarriage of justice campaigners say that they are being subjected to serious harassment and intimidation. At a House of Commons meeting, campaigners described their experiences. The meeting, on September 17 2003, was chaired by John McDonnell MP, and included speakers involved with high profile campaigns. Kevin McMahon, of Merseyside Against Injustice, joined the Merseyside Police … Read more
