[…] on Echelon which triggered the on-going Echelon controversy. Extracts from it are at http://mediafilter.org/echelon/ Spooks down under Dr David Turner writes: the story of how the Australian security files were prised open (and what they reveal) is an interesting one. Below are some useful links on this. http://journalism.uts.edu.au/staff/spies.html – David McKnight, ‘Australia’s Spies and […]
[…] Wass (at the Treasury) and Sir Frank Cooper (at MOD) when it was first suggested in late 1982. (Times 28 August) GCHQ staff being asked to allow security staff to see their medical records. (Daily Telegraph 1 November) Censorship/Secrecy/F.O.I. Detailed account of Swedish FOI legislation in action (Guardian 19 September) Lord Croham (Sir Douglas […]
[…] insisting that invasion was necessary because of weapons of mass destruction to asserting that the motive was regime change; what happened behind the scenes over the second security council resolution; and the still unexplained reason for Lord Goldsmith’s quick change of mind culminating in his advice that starting the war was legal even without […]
[…] warned him that he was in immediate danger. Amin dismissed these concerns and insisted that he could continue the investigation, relying on the local British embassy for security if need be. The following evening he received a call from his boss, Mickey Bispham. He was ordered to return to London immediately. Amin was thereafter […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] in strikes opposition to Bolshevism and aliens Middle Class Union 1919 14 (4) foreign manufacturing, engineering propaganda, lobbying representation of middle class interests, opposition to Bolshevism National Security Union 1919 12 (3) colonial oil, mining and navigation; the National Review propaganda, policing ‘to combat Bolshevism’ Liberty League 1920 9 (2) colonial land, tea, rubber […]
[…] most commentators didn’t believe him. I don’t know.) (3) ‘The best fake Maoists’ In October Radio Netherlands reported on the memoirs of a former member the Dutch security service (BVD), Frits Hoekstra. This includes the BVD’s creation of a fake Maoist party in the 1970s, which fooled everyone, including the Chinese government.(4) The BVD […]
[…] had a note on him referring to ‘Oswald’. See Seth Kantor, The Ruby Cover-up (US 1978) Richard Helms, Assistant Director of the CIA, explained to a Senate Internal Security Sub-Committee that there was a reason why Pravda was a day behind IPS in circulating the story: “Instead of having the story originate in Moscow, where […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
