[…] to its involvement in what is in effect state terror? I intend to examine what vehicles for democratic accountability exist to rein in the activities of the intelligence agencies and secret police. It is a sorry story. The minute the flag of ‘national security’ is raised we are supposed to no longer think rationally […]
[…] to minimise publicity, Terry’s conclusions – for only the conclusions were published – centred on the allegations of the homosexual vice-ring at the boys home involving British Intelligence. Terry described the allegations as fictional and, even though the journalists who had uncovered the scandal had received information from an RUC “deep throat”, laid most […]
[…] (civil administration) and Director of Operations (military administration). Templer was an absolute dictator, and as dictator was able, eventually, to achieve the kind of comprehensive and coordinated intelligence, police, military and propaganda operation which is at the heart of Kitson’s thesis, but which was never really achieved in Northern Ireland. One of the striking […]
[…] cracks PGP email and how to protect yourself – requiring, in the extreme, some dedication); Security Software; Surveillance Codes (codewords used by surveillance teams). FAS Public Eye/Signals Intelligence http://www.fas.org/eye/sigint.htm Details of civilian monitoring of federal, state and local govt., including military, intelligence, security, police radio comms, eg by scanner hobbyists using scanning radio receiver. […]
[…] get the media to take an interest. Duncan Campbell, then at the New Statesman, had written a series of pieces about Holroyd’s account of illegal military and intelligence operations in Northern Ireland. Wallace read them in prison and made contact with Holroyd who went down to Arundel, examined the scene of Jonathan Lewis’ death, […]
Intelligence Personnel Named in ‘Inside Intelligence’ See also: Part 1: Forty Years of Legal Thuggery (Lobster 9) Part 2: British Spooks “Who’s Who” (Lobster 10) Philby naming names (Lobster 16) First supplement to A Who’s Who of the British Secret State (Lobster 19) Spooks (Lobster 22) for Cohen, Brooman-White, De Haan, see Lobster […]
[…] would be Northern Ireland. But it was revealed (Private Eye 13 April 1979) that he would have been selected as Minister without Portfolio with responsibilities for the intelligence complex. Neave had strong intelligence connections. During WW2, after escaping from Colditz, he became a leading figure in MI9, the escape organisation controlled by MI6. Towards […]
[…] Glees and Philip H. J. Davies London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2004, £30, h/b This is a curious little book (112 pp.) in which two conservative intelligence academics wrestle with the realities of the events leading up to the attack on Iraq. But what manner of beast is a conservative intelligence academic? The […]
[…] to them. Major Wallace is probably wise to stay silent. There is a great deal to conceal, and as Kenneth Littlejohn and John Black discovered, the British intelligence services are as ruthless as any other country’s when it comes to silencing potential sources of embarrassment. (4) Wallace came originally from County Antrim and was […]
[…] academia are the only real flaw in an ambitious and potentially very useful book. Gill aims to provide the groundwork for an inquiry into the British security intelligence agencies, the Security Service and police Special Branches. To that end he reviews what is known about the operations and the remit of British security intelligence […]
