[PDF file]: […] German husband, the first having been killed in WW1. It seems that in the 30s MI5 automatically kept people with some sort of link to Germany under surveillance. No motive – political, financial or emotional – was found for her activities. 1 at Moscow (5 December 1941), that the war was now lost, or […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Trust, which had Victor Lownes, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy gopher, in tow as ‘tantric adviser’. Beresford later believed that Hollingshead was responsible for his being placed under government surveillance; by the time he did, though, Hollingshead had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, […]
[…] Tory Party’s biggest financial donors. See . 46 and imprison him.47 An article on The Intercept 4 8 listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler of Brockwell, member […]
[PDF file]: […] European countries can do this there can be no conceivable reason for not doing so other than it would shock the public as to the extent of surveillance, spying and the use of informants. MI5 is on record as destroying a vast number of these files – what has not been destroyed should be […]
[PDF file]: […] protests of the 1960s and resolved ‘never again’. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist ‘fusion centres’ of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are […]
[PDF file]: […] pushing his Playing to the Edge. He expected that he was going to have to spend a lot of his time defending ‘Bush-era tactics that included electronic surveillance, metadata collection, renditions, detentions, interrogations, and targeted killings’, trying to convince his audience that after 9/11 ‘we had to play to the legal and ethical edge’. […]
[PDF file]: […] while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides are horrifying in their implications. One such example is the extensive surveillance MI5 imposed on the undeniably brilliant polymath Jacob Bronowski. It is alleged that Bronowski had to eventually emigrate to the U.S. to find any decent work […]
[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 […]
