[…] was overridden by the implications of the Tyler Kent affair.’ Tyler Kent was a cypher clerk in the American Embassy in London. He had been under MI5 surveillance for some 7 months during which he had made contact with members of the Right Club, the hard-core pro-Nazis in London lead by the dotty Tory […]
[…] On April 8, 1986, according to the Los Angeles Times, President Reagan ‘issued a top secret national security decision directive that enabled the government to use military surveillance and intelligence capabilities in its drug fight. The directive…. for the first time said that the international drug trade is a national security concern, because of […]
[PDF file]: […] as being motivated by the highest of ideals: above all his belief that our online privacy needs to preserved, not secretly mined by seemingly unaccountable US Government surveillance agencies. He tells us his act was driven by a deeply moral decision to quite simply ‘tell the truth’ because the ‘abuses I witnessed demanded action’. […]
[PDF file]: Facilitating Tyranny? Glenn Greenwald and the creation of the NSA’s ‘Panopticon’ Citizenseven No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA and the Surveillance State Glenn Greenwald London: Hamish Hamilton, 2014 Since becoming the conduit for the trove of classified documents from former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, Greenwald’s public profile has increased […]
[PDF file]: […] reported on German-Americans, labor organizers, antiwar activists and other dissidents. This public/private partnership achieved what one historian has called ‘arguably the world’s most intensive feat of domestic surveillance ever’.17 Many of their targets were arrested or deported during the Red scare of 1919-20 at the direction of Attorney 15 CF ‘A Brief History of […]
[PDF file]: […] first regular client: the CIA’s Office of Security. That branch handled many of the Agency’s most sensitive and illegal operations, including drug testing and mind-control experiments; domestic surveillance of antiwar activists; and even covert investigations of national columnist Jack Anderson. Most controversially, as we will soon see, it also oversaw plots to kill foreign […]
[PDF file]: […] of the World’s Most Dangerous Spyware Laurent Richard and Sandrine Rigaud London: Macmillan, 2023, 317 pages Colin Challen This is the first book about Pegasus, the cyber surveillance software developed by the Israeli company the NSO Group. It lays out the threat posed by the world’s leading cyber surveillance outfit. It is a sobering […]
[PDF file]: […] for longrange power projection but for sustained power projection.’ 2 3 (emphases added) BAE’s High-Endurance Rapid Technology Integration drone includes the following capabilities: ‘Reconnaissance • Wide area surveillance • Border patrol • Maritime surveillance and protection • Infantry/front line support • Battle Damage assessment • Pipeline surveillance • High value asset protection • Law […]
[PDF file]: […] a politically neutral Irish passport would seem obvious. Multiple passports – even if they are in the same name – would also aid in the avoidance of surveillance of flight data and passenger manifests. For instance, if one were to fly from the United States to Paris on a U.S. passport you could then […]
[PDF file]: […] to the publication of Of G-Men and Eggheads with considerable interest. Unfortunately, while certainly worth reading, the book is actually something of a disappointment. It examines FBI surveillance of three New York intellectuals, associated at various times with the journal Partisan Review: Lionel Trilling, Dwight Macdonald and Irving Howe. As Rodden makes clear, none […]
