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[…] and not to compromise on the working of those markets even where they create the opportunity for crime. There is thus no other policy available than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of […]

[…] had been involved in the revolt. Dillais himself commanded the Greenpeace operation from the Hyatt Hotel in Auckland. Major Alan Mafart, the leader of the captured ‘Satanic’ surveillance team, was Dillais’ former deputy commander at the diving school and one of the ringleaders of the 1981 rebellion. As a result of the Greenpeace operation […]

[…] Common Cause in the 1950s, and had written for Aims of Industry.(7) Professor Fred Halliday’s presence is on this list may explain why he was put under surveillance by MI5. Halliday was already on the Anglo-American subversion-spotter’s list because of his association with the Institute for Policy Studies in the USA. The subversion spotters […]

[…] secret state. After an opening discussion of the philosophical basis of their analysis, they methodically work through the historical and legal background to the extant legislation on surveillance, vetting, secrecy, bugging, the status and (non) accountability of the security and intelligence services, and so forth. While the descriptive detail is overwhelming in itself, the […]

[…] credentials and a long background in MI6. Zeus, then operated by ex-MI5 officer, Jeremy Wetherall, of another security firm, Lynx, was given the contract to organise the surveillance, which they sub-contracted to Sapphire Investigation Bureau, run by Barrie Peachman. The story of Peachman, his use of the unsavoury far rightist, Vic Norris, who claims […]

[…] a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance of CND: ‘It was perceived as more than ever necessary that we had to be able to answer very precisely whatever questions we were asked about […]

[…] Pat and I were visiting. He made his excuses and left within minutes of Pat introducing me. I didn’t know that he was head of A4, MI5’s surveillance unit, at the time. I had assumed he was a spook – a ‘friend at the Home Office’, as Pat used to engagingly phrase it. The […]

[…] a collection of essays edited by Wesley K. Wark gets pretty short shrift from me. However, in one of the more abstruse essays, ‘Anti-diplomacy, Intelligence Theory and Surveillance’, under a sub-heading ‘Intertextualism and International Theory’, we read this: ‘An intertext, defined by the semiologist Roland Barthes as a “multi-dimensional space in which a variety […]

[…] are located, the British state tagged along with the Americans who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of […]