During the current farcical trial of Ali Agca a most interesting snippet appeared in the press which looks like finally seeing off the alleged ‘Bulgarian connection.’ Signor Giovanni Pandico, a jailed former member of the upper echelons of the Naples-based Camorra, claimed that it had played a part in convincing Agca to accept the role … Read more
[…] piece on the subject in Nexus (October/ November 2001). Free Hagar extracts One of the most influential books of recent years has been Nicky Hagar’s book on Echelon which triggered the on-going Echelon controversy. Extracts from it are at http://mediafilter.org/echelon/ Spooks down under Dr David Turner writes: the story of how the Australian security […]
[…] Internal Affairs Committee, and prepared by the Omega Foundation in March 1997, the report comprehensively examines all aspects of political control, including surveillance technologies, telecommunications interception (including ECHELON – see elsewhere in this issue); crowd control and ‘less than lethal’ weapons including MW and accoustic disabling systems; prisoner control and torture and interrrogation techniques. […]
[…] friend of the Salinas family, trigger massive capital flight when they suddenly begin buying up huge amounts of short-term, dollar-based tesobonos. Proceso magazine alleges that certain high- echelon PRI insiders were given privileged information about the impending peso devaluation. (Anderson Valley Advertiser, 5 April 1995) 21 December The peso is devalued by almost 50%. […]
[…] ‘…to get quick access to all the information available classified and unclassified about virtually anyone’. Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, […]
Fijian politics, which has been made increasingly chaotic by various coups and counter-coups over the last 14 years, is dominated by racial identity interests. On the one side are the native Fijians, the original Polynesian inhabitants of the island, and on the other, the Indian Fijians. The native Fijians, though still comprising 51% of the … Read more
[…] upon criminals licensed to operate by police forces in return for the parcelling-up of other criminals (or ‘criminals’) for conviction, guilty or otherwise; net snooping at work; Echelon and its cousins; the origins of the surveillance society in 19th century use of private detectives to break labour organisations; the history of so-called ‘red squads’; […]
See note (1) Robin Ramsay The topic was suggested to me by Kevin O’Brien [of ICSA]. It wasn’t clear to me if it was simply that I was being played out a very long piece of rope with which to hang myself. At any rate, given such a wide title – and a title to … Read more
[…] his own earlier books (in 43 pages!); the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the CIA’s former psyops and political action programmes in light drag; surveillance and the Echelon story; the CIA and drug trafficking; and so on. In short, Blum has managed a kind of summary – with documentation – of a large chunk […]
See note(1) The Conventional Wisdom It is generally assumed that the economist J. M. Keynes was instrumental in establishing the post-war Anglo-American economic relationship. The argument is that, along with the US Assistant Secretary to the Treasury Harry Dexter White, Keynes created the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (now … Read more
