[…] West Germany, and the most recent issue (No2, 1987) is certainly no disappointment. Articles on German activities cover participation by the German Army in the Afghan War, security measures of the Berlin police for VIP visits, the condemnation by the ILO of the German state’s practice of excluding “extremists” from public employment (Berufsverbot); and, […]
[…] inducing Sukarno, on March 14, 1957, to proclaim martial law, and bring ‘the officer corps legitimately into politics’. (31) By 1953 (if not earlier) the U.S. National Security Council had already adopted one of a series of policy documents calling for ‘appropriate action, in collaboration with other friendly countries, to prevent permanent communist control’ […]
[…] Geraghty. He argues quite strongly that the war in Northern Ireland is not really over, that the IRA is repositioning itself for another round, and that the security forces must be ready for this. I suspect that this interpretation of developments comes from the same sources as provided the details of electronic surveillance. It […]
[…] Germany, but about his knowledge of Haushofer? That Rudolf Hess might be in Britain was after all a sensational piece of news of considerable interest to the security and intelligence services if true. So why should Sinclair not have told someone with Medhurst’s rank and clearance that Hamilton had identified the man as Hess […]
[…] Freeman, mostly from the Fiji Sun 9th July 1987. “Paul Freeman was involved in a destabilisation action against a NZ labour government in 1975. He received a Security Intelligence Service (SIS) file from an SIS employee, Rohan Jays, with embarrassing information about a Labour MP. Freeman publicly handed the file to the Prime Minister, […]
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[…] information, and should inform you where it is . Absolute exemptions are not subject to any public interest test, and include information supplied by, or concerning: the Security Service, MI5; the Secret Intelligence Service, MI6; GCHQ; the Special Forces, e.g. the SAS; tribunals concerning intelligence and interception of communications including the Investigatory Powers Tribunal; […]
[…] ‘Although Georgia is a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)……President Eduard Shevardnadse announced in February 1999 that his country would withdraw from the CIS’s Collective Security Treaty. Integration with the west is moving forward, and President Eduard Shevardnadse’s victory in the October 1999 parliamentary election was widely seen as a referendum on […]
[…] Those who ask, under the Freedom of Information Act, for the results of that research are told that answering their questions ‘might prejudice the interests of national security’. You might very well think that, in the interests of ‘national security’ that is the people’s security the people should be told what has […]
[…] to be believed. Where too is Brian Crozier? Since the Langemann papers identified Crozier as a Pinay Circle member who was engaged in setting up a ‘transnational security organisation’, little has been heard of the man or of the progress of the group. Crozier’s last known action — yet another attempt to discredit the […]
