Crime fighting? There must many candidates for the title ‘The most damaging thing I have read about this government’. My current candidate is a piece by Simon Jenkins, ‘A Keep Police off the Streets Strategy Unit’ (The Times 2 February 2002). After reminding the reader that in the UK the police are a local service, … 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] areas. A few examples: on page 7 he refers to a paper which, in turn, refers to the existence of a DIA psychic centre in the National Security Agency (NSA); but he fails give details of the paper. On page 18 Rifat makes extensive references to hypnosis, drugs, meditation, ELF and a host of […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] replied in the issue of 22 October, claimed to be bored with O’Hara (after smearing him for nearly a year!), but admitted he had dealings with the security services (unspecified). October also saw Alexander Baron’s curiously titled Editors! Are You Being Fed A Load Of Bullshit? You Are If You Subscribe to Searchlight: A […]
[…] must be faced. For some time we have seen the hope of realizing any true or lasting change to the structure and operational capabilities of the national security agencies wither away until the prospects have all but faded from view…’ JFK sources Two significant articles on the Kennedy assassination appeared in Probe. ‘Harvey and […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] that the IPLO was a British state pseudo-gang. In this issue Red Action replied that such evidence was ‘about as thin on the ground as a Brit security expert with the ability to spot one’. Which I think is their way of saying, ‘You’re right, we’ve got no evidence.’ Larry is more to their […]
[…] 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 […]
