[…] by the nickname ‘Lock-up’ – and will be in charge of security data flowing between the Joint Intelligence HQ at Stormont Castle and reports from MI5’s top secret F3 section which is responsible for Irish affairs. (Sunday World 27th May 1984) …. Number one spook in Northern Ireland is Robert John Andrew (56) who […]
[…] spies using undercover techniques ranging from the sex trap to lavish hospitality'(9); teaching models for schools: ‘Ask students to chose a spy from history and create a secret fact file on their chosen spy, giving personal details as well as summaries of their main missions’; (10) and a research, publishing and tourism industry growing […]
[…] government be it noted the British Youth Council was said to be financed by the Foreign Office, though that may be a euphemism for MI6, the British secret intelligence service. In 1977 Mandelson and one Charles Clarke, another familiar name, then head of the British National Union of Students, put together a delegation from […]
[…] surveillance methods used in Northern Ireland. The internet allowed people living in repressive regimes, or rebel groups, to get information out whilst keeping their identities and locations secret by the use of anonymising software and encryption. Rohan Jayasekera, Web Manager at Index on Censorship, said this could be a tool for social change in […]
[…] the Prime Minister. One of these, ‘Economic Well-being’, was not published. Another, written in the same year (1996) was not published and even its title remains a secret. (What could the committee have investigated so soon after its creation that was so sensitive that even its title has been suppressed by the government?) The […]
[…] referendum on membership of the then EEC, ‘How We Fell for Europe’ (BBC2, 4 June 2005) got most of it right but flunked the role of the secret state in it. Of IRD’s role in the ‘pro’ campaign there was no mention; and he was told about it. You leak, we brief Michael Smith, […]
[…] to journalists who didn’t have time to do the research. Eventually Steve and I wrote a book about the campaigns against Harold Wilson, Smear: Wilson and the Secret State. (Writing this is the reason Lobsters 20, 21 and 22 were rather thin.) After which Steve began writing another book and I continued producing Lobster. […]
[…] writer Ron Rosenbaum, Travels with Dr Death (Papermack, 1999). This includes essays on JFK’s death and the assassination research community; the death of Mary Meyer; Watergate; the secret society Skull and Bones; and the CIA. This last is Rosenbaum’s wonderful essay on Angleton and his paranoia. Rosenbaum is a journalist not a parapolitical researcher […]
[…] first Bond-like rendezvous, but it would certainly be the most startling. We had agreed to meet in order that the source could tell me about a highly secret US operation known as ‘Black Dog.’ Neither of us trusted electronic communication and, therefore, a face-to-face meeting was essential. The meeting followed a story I had […]
[…] received a videotape in the post. The tape contained footage of Bush rehearsing for the televised presidential debates. Downey assumed the tape had been sent by a secret sympathiser in the Bush camp, and wisely handed it to his lawyer. His lawyer took it to the FBI. His suspicion aroused by the Bush campaign’s […]
