[…] 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 […]
[…] for that is what ‘the national interest’ means. But what is the ‘British economic interest’? British economic interests? The annual report for 2004/5 of the Intelligence and Security Committee noted in chapter 13 under the heading ‘Economic well-being’: ‘We took evidence from Ministers, departments and the Agencies on the Agencies’ work to support and […]
[…] be developed and adopted. The ‘empirical’ chapters which follow deal, respectively, with single market policy, competition policy, EMU, the CAP, social policy, the ‘third pillar’ (aka ‘freedom, security and justice’) and external policies. Of the most significant policy areas, then, only the environment is missing, a curious omission when you consider its increasing importance […]
[…] MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled for spying (Sunday Correspondent 26 August 1990). J. Johnston: Radio Security Service in WW2 (letter, Sunday Telegraph 12 August 1990). Group Captain William Cross: Expelled Algeria (Independent 15 April 1991). John Peskett: “Former Intelligence Officer’ (letter, Sunday […]
[…] the extraordinary difficulties in funnelling information from the bottom to the top of a bureaucracy as large and as politicised as that of the United States national security structure. The second is that there is too much information; and there would be even more if the FBI/NSA/CIA had enough translators of the various languages […]
[…] ‘briefings’ put out by IRD in the 1970s and is proof that while IRD may have officially closed, its functions continue in other guises. Canadian Association For Security And Intelligence Studies Newsletter Issue 10 arrived, chock full of news and details of books recent and forthcoming in the intelligence field. It includes a couple […]
[…] washing experiments under MK Ultra are suing the US government. There is a suggestion that the UK government was involved in similar operations. Part of the surviving CIA documentation on MK Ultra (most was destroyed on Helms’ orders) reads: “allied governments where the security services has people under its control.” New Scientist 2nd Feb. 1984
Cherie Blair: Speaking for Myself Cherie Blair London: Little, Brown, 2008, h/b, £18.99 The relentless harrying of Neil Kinnock by the Murdoch press at the time of the 1992 general election outraged Labour Party people, among them Cherie Blair. This was the general election when The Sun proudly boasted that it was its continual … Read more
[…] by the state. This was the view, for example, of Ron Hayward, the General Secretary of the Labour Party. In 1974 Hayward was informed by a private security company that the Labour Party’s headquarters were bugged. ‘Nonsense,’ said Hayward. ‘We don’t have Watergate politics in Britain.’ Hayward simply didn’t know. In 1974 hardly anybody […]
[…] Telecom” on the question of warrants for taps: ‘When it is a police matter, we always see the warrant. When the tap is being made for the Security Services, we never see the warrant. We never know if there is one.’ David Stirling claims he was phone-tapped in 1975 while setting up his para-military […]
