[PDF file]: […] CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews,315 illustrates Peter Wright’s claim that ‘By 1955 . . . the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants’. With the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former […]
[…] the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] Orion: 2011, £20, h/b Built round interviews with participants, journalist Jacobson has written an account – not quite a history, really – of the U2 and Blackbird surveillance planes, and their significant role in the Cold War. There are lots of interesting snippets in here, she writes well and this is worth the time […]
[…] 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 […]
