[…] so many ‘supergrass’ trials in the 1980s, but had the effect of targeting Bingham on behalf of his republican foes. Bingham was incredibly careful about his personal security, with a mobile home on the Antrim Coast and network of safe houses. He was nonetheless assassinated outside his own house in what can only be […]
[…] range from the rear – i.e. not by Sirhan, who was in front. The assassin was almost certainly a man called Eugene Thane Cesar, dressed as a security guard, standing just behind Kennedy. Committee For A Community of Democracy New group mentioned in passing in Guardian 17th January 1984. Anyone seen other references, details […]
[…] the Shayler-Machon drama and the book Defending the Realm by Nick Fielding and Mark Hollingsworth. Nonetheless, familiar or not, this is a devastating critique of the British security services and the political system which is nominally in charge of them. The only agencies which come well out of this are regional Special Branches, who […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] to serve on the Proscribed Organisations Appeal Commission. Among the criteria suggested for applicants was that they should have experience in ‘……the armed forces, police or national security services‘- a phrase whose time is a-coming, I think; a little hint of the amalgamation of the security and intelligence services now being talked of. (See […]
[…] invariably planned operations which, frankly, stood little chance of success… There was, too, a senseless bravado about the way they behaved which I felt often risked the security of the operations … (MI6) was operating in the modern world with 1930s attitudes and 1930s personnel…” (p72 Spycatcher) Cavendish goes into some detail about his […]
[…] if I was prepared to sell my investigation report to them; and later in the course of the conversation, when I suggested sharing information, citing the national security aspects, I was asked if I was prepared to sign a security agreement concerning this issue. I was further asked to prepare a proposal and submit […]
[…] CIA is demonstrated by a long chain of evidence. That chain includes McCord’s secret relationship to Hunt, the clandestine relationship of both men to the Office of Security, the Office of Security’s use of prostitutes in the past, the CIA’s continued assistance to Hunt long after the August 17 “cutoff”, the circumstances of Hunt’s […]
[…] and indiscriminately’ monitor countless phone, fax and e-mail messages. It states: ‘Within Europe all e-mail telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency transferring all target information from the European mainland via the strategic hub of London then by satellite to Fort Meade in Maryland via the crucial […]
[…] side in the Iran-Iraq war. But the sale of dual-use items (with both civilian and military applications) from the US to Iraq was not constrained by national security controls, and the Dept of Commerce approved licences for exporting $1.5 billion of dual-use items to Iraq between 1985 and 1990. Nuclear Non-proliferation: export licensing procedures […]
