There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to do … Read more
[…] do this is uncertain – the matter remains classified. Satellite imagery is only the most remote possibility, given the darkness and the low-priority of Guyana as a surveillance site. Radio intercepts are a second, more likely, possibility; at present, however, it is unknown if there were transmissions from Jonestown that would have permitted an […]
[…] aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society for the Study of Labour History, Volume 52, […]
A history of ASIO and National Surveillance Frank Cain Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2009, p/b, $39.95. ISBN 978 1 921509 322 Frank Cain was just a name to me but a little googling showed that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – […]
[…] European Parliament’s Civil Liberties and Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control […]
[…] ‘the badger’ is responsible for scheduling the Gardai border patrols. Through ‘the badger’s’ knowledge of Gardai operational details, the RUC’s paramilitary Special Support Unit and E4A covert surveillance team, and Loyalists on orders from the SMIU were able to launch a series of cross-border incursions which, according to Holroyd, involved one murder, two attempted […]
[…] front organisation. And if an organisation is committed, ultimately, to overthrowing the government, this must make any and all of its members and sympathisers legitimate targets for surveillance. They may not appear to be up to very much, but keep watching: after all, ‘we do not know today what we will need tomorrow’, in […]
[…] only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, obsessively poked through the CIA for a ‘mole’ he believed was […]
[…] such astounding technology has been patchy and anecdotal.(1) But the report confirms that the citizens of Britain and other European states are subject to an intensity of surveillance far in excess of that imagined by most parliaments. Its findings are certain to excite the concern of MEPs. ‘The ECHELON system forms part of the […]
[…] and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.’ A lot of info on the U.S. debate on electronic privacy and the FBI’s attempts to have greater surveillance powers with regard to wireraps and digital/computer communications, e.g. via key recovery. Issues include: cryptography; civil liberties; free speech; privacy; Congress and the Net; counter terrorism; […]
