[PDF file]: […] reported to MI5.6 Rimington denies running telephone intercepts, which may also be true. Guardian journalists were told by employees of GCHQ that, with its larger partner the NSA, GCHQ was surveilling the NUM and its attempts to hide its resources from state sequestration. (Again the Soviet ‘trace’ would justify this.)7 The role of encouraging […]
[PDF file]: […] citizens. Lastly, Norton-Taylor highlights procedural and administrative problems with the intelligence services. Over the last two decades resources have flowed into cybersecurity, and, by working with the NSA, the British security services are able to harvest enormous amounts of data. Quite shockingly, the 2016 Investigatory Powers Act allows anyone’s phone, emails or texts to […]
[PDF file]: […] wouldn’t it? But what precisely is being denied here? No MI5 people were involved in the surveillance of Wilson. OK, surveillance is not MI5’s job: GCHQ or NSA would do that (almost certainly the latter). And no MI5 people had been involved in ‘any attempt to destabilise the government’. But burglary, leaking official material, […]
[…] War’ section of the Enigma History page at Crypto Museum . 55 ‘The captured Enigma machines ended up in the vaults of CG&GS (now: GCHQ) and the NSA, or were given to other countries with the message that they could not be broken.’ Bugs The New York Review of Books ran an interesting piece […]
[PDF file]: […] often very complex legal mechanisms intended to conceal such control. 5 simply part of the national security state – never mind what Mr Snowden says about the NSA. It may not be possible in our lifetimes – or ever – to reorganise human society so as to be freed of these sociopaths and the […]
[PDF file]: […] director of K2 Intelligence and the Atlantic Council, amongst other things. Chief Operating Officer of Bluevoyant is Jim Penrose who worked in the National Security Agency ( NSA) for 17 years, and with a business called Darktrace (on whose Advisory Board sits crossbench Lord Evans of Weardale, KCB, former head of MI5).10 Mr Penrose’s […]
[…] p/b, £14.99 Robin Ramsay One of the most influential books published in the English-speaking world since the Millennium was James Bamford’s 2001 Body of Secrets about the NSA. Although it attracted little attention initially, a nine page section about Operation Northwoods was noticed by the 9/11 sceptics. Northwoods was a 1962 Pentagon plan to […]
[…] Chennault and the Nixon team were doing but decided not to blow the whistle during the election campaign – possibly because the main source on this was NSA intercepts which he didn’t want to reveal. Although we have known about this in outline for a while, Sullivan recounts these events in enormous detail in […]
[PDF file]: […] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]
[…] the time. The staff of the Myrotvorets website evidently share a dark sense of humour, because the administrators use online noms-de-plume such as ‘Nato’, ‘MI5’, and ‘ NSA’. There was no reason to presume that the reference to Langley, Virginia, had any real-world significance. But six weeks after Lira’s death, the CIA admitted that […]
