[…] sector. This parasitical activity on the remnants of the British state reached an absurd climax with the news in March this year that the Department of Social Security paid out more than 100 million in management fees in 1993 — while only giving 97 million in grants to the poor.(67) But is this what […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Charles F. Reske came along. Reske is one of those people who shift easily between intelligence and academe. During the Vietnam years, he served with the Naval Security Group, the U.S. Navy’s agency for signals intelligence (SIGINT), and he has collected degrees in history and archaeology. With SOG, what Reske did was amusing in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 ‘ […]
[…] 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 […]
