[PDF file]: […] Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen’s Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the dispute twice a day. According to Martin Furnival Jones, MI5’s […]
[PDF file]: […] As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding connections at the Foreign Office and in British Intelligence’,15 the main conspirators were definitely adopting military/intelligence tactics in their surveillance. This is confirmed by the revelation that, ‘Oyston was now Murrin’s key target codenamed ‘T1’ in correspondence.’16 Michael Murrin may well have been familiar with the […]
[PDF file]: […] the ‘National Stasi Agency’, another nice joke but not really justified: the Stasi were the secret police, more akin to the FBI; the NSA is just a surveillance agency. The following paragraphs are just some of the many I noted and may give a sense of Roberts’ writing if he’s new to you. ‘Washington […]
[PDF file]: […] account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds […]
[PDF file]: […] Atlantic. The British military are trying RFIDs in their warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]
[PDF file]: […] input from MI5’s Jack Morton, who used his extensive counter-insurgency experience from India, Malaya and Northern Ireland to help restructure the intelligence agencies of President Junius Jayewardene. Surveillance of Tamil separatists was carried out not only in Sri Lanka but also on those who were living in exile in the United Kingdom. Regarding the […]
[PDF file]: […] the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why […]
[PDF file]: […] And as former head of the U2 programme, nobody knew better than Bissell that the Soviets were not a 3 threat to the US. Prior to those surveillance flights which began in 1957, what was happening behind ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief […]
[PDF file]: […] proved fruitless, Manfred’s widow was forced to sign an affidavit stating that she would not tell anyone else what had happened; and Rene’s widow was kept under surveillance for months to see if she would reveal information to anyone else. The two women, who have exercised their right to privacy ever since, were also […]
