[…] break-ins, pranks, things left in the house, nuisance calls – the familiar repertoire. Which is to say: we still have a secret state whose legal, intelligence and security wings are virtually unregulated. There are now elaborate procedures mimicking regulation – both Kennedy and Henderson are exploring these – but the state can still wreck […]
[…] by the USAF Scientific Advisory Board report entitled ‘New World Vistas: air and space power for the 21st century’, published in 1996. Sadly, for reasons of ‘national security’, attempts to obtain Freedom of Information Act disclosure, both in the UK and the USA, about this class of technology has not been successful enough to […]
[…] candidate put up to enable a Thatcher victory?’ Well, now…… It’s a funny old world…. …when the Director of Public Prosecutions attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3)and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as […]
[…] of MI5. Our fearless journalist reports that ‘Sir Steven had clearly been shaken by cruel and untimely remarks made by Tom King, chairman of the Intelligence and Security Committee.’ Poor baby! How fortunate that EYE SPY! was there to sympathise. Unnamed fearless reporter continues: ‘The Director-General should never have been put in this position.’ […]
[…] him of the difficulties he had himself faced as Burgess’ and Philby’s close colleague in Washington in 1951… And it was these same “guardians of the nation’s security”, according to my Chief Whip, Michael St Aldwyn, who ad-vised Edward Heath that he would be running a risk of scandal if he retained me as […]
[…] a man who, by his own admission, spent virtually the whole of the post-war period working for British and American intelligence. His role in educating Thatcher on security and intelligence issues with his Shield group of old spooks is omitted and his memoir is not included in the author’s bibliography. ISC and NAFF are […]
PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Most Western political scientists, following in the traditions of Marx or Weber, scorn the study of secret and occult societies as irrelevant to understanding the politics of the age. In their view, politics can best be understood as the working out, in public arenas, of bureaucratic, … Read more
[…] you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret Intelligence Services, GCHQ, in the Index …..you guessed it: all their references are ‘666’. The book is 550 pages long and it has 1491 […]
[…] is a very rough paraphrase indeed.) Fluoride was used in very large quantities by the WW2 nuclear programmes. Its toxic effects were known but suppressed — ‘national security’. The early research showing that it was ‘safe’ was done by scientists working on nukes in the late 40s and early 1950s whose affiliations with the […]
[…] throughout the country, and I can only assume that it was believed. After all, one would think that the former Director of Naval Intelligence and the National Security Agency would know with some precision where he was when this country was undergoing its greatest political crisis of this century. Indeed, to think otherwise is […]
