[…] I am reminded what a great story this is. First black Secret Service agent; after the assassination, seeking to testify to the Warren Commission about the lax security practices of the Secret Service, he is framed by his erstwhile colleagues and dumped in a mental asylum. (Bolden and the Chicago incident are discussed at […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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
[…] Dogs of war A study by the Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ) published in June (26) estimates that some 30,000 employees of US and European-based Private Security Companies (PSCs) are at work in Iraq. ‘They have been involved in firefights…..scores of them…..have perished….. add by 20% the number of foreign troops in the […]
[…] at it;(5) believing media-friendly populism to be the same as authenticity; and losing control of the populism so it is mistaken for it, including in some testosterone-driven security studies courses in universities. The overriding blockage, however, is that ‘authenticity’ is driven by niche appeal, whose success depends first on its brand reputation, and second […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] the national treasurer of the Institute for Workers Control and worked in CND headquarters, at a point when they were the source of much interest to the Security Service. (And, according to the recent research by Seamus Milne, he would have been used to penetrate the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984, had he […]
[…] on a Russian exile group known as the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists (NTS) by Peter J. Huxley-Blythe, then a protégé of Knupffer. (18) The article, ‘Insecure Security’, accused the CIA of financing the NTS; Huxley-Blythe claimed NTS was really under KGB control. Knupffer and other White Russian monarchists especially despised the NTS because […]
