[…] I made a subject access request to MI5 under the 1998 DPA act when it became ‘live’ in 2000. I received a reply which took the regulation Security Service ‘We can neither confirm nor deny’ line. This appeared to be in direct contradiction of the 1998 DPA and the Human Rights Act (HRA). Accordingly […]
[…] free market on the one hand and a strong State on the other.’ p. 53 ‘Thatcherism’s emphasis on strong defence and the promotion of national economic and security interests has led, if anything, to an intensification of the cosy relationship between the MOD and the defence industry.’ pp. 53-4 Take it, it’s public money […]
[…] some commentators, concentrated ministerial minds, with proposals likely to follow after the next election. (9) Beyond our Ken Kenneth Tynan’s encounter with the SISS (the Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee) (10) in May 1960 is described in Dominic Shellard’s recent biography. The previous year Tynan had produced a television documentary, We Dissent, intended to ‘ […]
[…] written after Watergate (and virtually uncirculated), McCord put forward a conspiracy theory suggesting that the Rockefeller family was lunging for complete control over the government’s critical national security functions, using the Council on Foreign Relations and Henry Kissinger as its surrogates. Felt, McCord and a boatload of liberals weren’t the only ones to demonize […]
[…] prisoners had met sudden deaths (and a fourth was found injured but survived). All four had been held in separate cells, totally isolated, under Conditions of maximum security. Davies includes a speculative chapter on these developments. The official version is that Andreas Baader and Jan-Carl Raspe had had fire arms smuggled into Stanheim and […]
[…] the story. Consequently, I can clarify the issue of whether David or Annie possessed or knew of ‘concrete evidence’ that senior Labour ministers had ‘worked for the Security Services’. The reasons the Mail on Sunday did not publish this story is very simple: we knew it was completely untrue. The ‘friend’ of Shayler who […]
[…] and I think they should be.’ Rimington (smiling nervously) ‘I’ll pass on the message! Since that encounter Norman Baker MP’s case before the Data Protection Tribunal’s national security appeals panel resulted in a ruling that MI5’s blanket ban on disclosing the contents of personal files is wrong in principle. Whether in practice this results […]
The demise of Ken Livingstone as Mayor of London on 1 May was preceded by the publication of the latest account of his political career, Andrew Hosken’s Ken – The Ups and Downs of Ken Livingstone.(1) Although it contains some new and interesting material (but has no index), it is similar in many ways to … Read more
[…] criminal histories, the armed robbers who densely populated those years. These firms were made up in the main from criminals trained in the fifties. Changes in money security and the means of production, and an economy drifting deeper into crisis, allied with increasing police powers, make it now virtually impossible to be a young […]
[…] paramilitary groups in regions of interest. An early warning capability should be established that uses internet messages to help identify developing situations overseas that could lead to security threats. Officials planning and conducting DoD civil affairs programs overseas should be informed about any activists working in their vicinity who use the internet. The DoD […]
