[…] never been tested, even during joint military/civilian exercises. It is believed that, immediately after installation of the circuits, Telecom ‘lost’ or destroyed all records on grounds of security. This has rendered impossible any maintenance of the rapidly-corroding underground system; telephone engineers simply do not know where it is. The costs of EMSS appear to […]
[…] traditional boundaries and areas of responsibilities, with access to classified and unrestricted information…’ Sebestyen Gorka and Richard Sullivan, ‘Biological toxins: A bioweapon threat in the 21st century’, Security Dialogue, 33 (2) (June 2002), pp 141-156. The Cold War The Congress of Cultural Freedom’s ‘The Future of Freedom’ Conference held in Milan in 1955 is […]
Jim Mac Laughlin London: Pluto Press, 2001, £15.99/£45 Mac Laughlin’s book is a history of nation-building in Ireland. This overlaps with a study of Irish nationalism. The two things are not identical. Indeed, the tensions and differences between the two is one of his implicit themes. The book is not a rehash of various … Read more
[…] appeared to be taking the allegations seriously. In the final paragraphs the Telegraph provided what looks like a fall-back position if bodies are found: ‘Privately, police and security forces veterans believe that “Bruce” could have been part of a renegade band of soldiers who may have carried out some “freelance killings.”‘ To my knowledge […]
[…] Diplomatic intercepts by GCHQ were also helpful to the US during the build-up to the 1972 Paris peace conference. President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger, then National Security Adviser, attached great importance to the mood of the North Vietnamese and the Hong Kong station’s information, which suggested that Hanoi was far from capitulating, led […]
[…] protest against the Heath government’s 20% inflation. Gorman, pp. 162 and 3 For the complete list, and some details see Blum. The head of the US National Security Council said the British economic crisis ‘was considered by us in the White House at that time as the greatest single threat to the stability of […]
[…] Eamon McMahon, McArdle says: “McMahon, a debonair type, was a Republican from a fiercely Nationalist family. He was generally recognised as a shadowy paramilitary activist by the security forces. He had identified himself with the IRA in South Armagh in the early 1970s, but in later years he was involved with the INLA. He […]
[…] with FBI agents and other dirty tricksters, but Huey Newton was living in a luxury Oakland penthouse in 1971, overlooking Lake Merritt, and I doubt that ‘ security’ was the only reason. By 1978 I was living on the other side of the lake, and Newton was still considered politically correct as he returned […]
[…] Select Committee on Transport; LFI veteran Mike Gapes stays on as chair of Foreign Affairs, and who is that old radical lefty who is now chairing the Security and Intelligence Committee? Step forward one-time Hornsey College of Art rebel and comrade of the striking miners, Dr Kim Howells. Described by The Jewish Chronicle as […]
[…] UK. For a free market Tory regime could not be seen actively – let alone successfully – intervening in the domestic manufacturing economy. And because the ‘national security’ blanket could be thrown over arms sales, the payment of millions – maybe billions – of pounds of bribes and general ripping-off of the public purse […]
