[…] had been under electronic surveillance. In October 1984 it was originally denied to Stalker that the hay shed had been bugged, but army officers confirmed that a bug had been planted by MI5 and its product recorded by a police and Army technical team. ‘The tape was to become the rope in a bitter […]
In the mainland UK press the bugging of a house used by Seamus Mallon, deputy leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, was presented as (merely) another mysterious and rather inept example of ‘dirty tricks’ in Irish politics. (See eg Guardian 20th February 1984) A brief story appeared and then vanished again. But Irish … Read more
[…] senior Sinn Fein people involved in the Northern Ireland peace talks, Gerry Kelly, was bugged for the three years leading up to the talks. Transcripts from the bug ‘passed to the Cabinet, played a key role in helping the government decide if the UIRA ceasefire was genuine’. It is said the Kelly was tipped […]
[…] had bugged and kept under surveillance a number of Labour M.P.s. Wilson put an end to the practise. The Security Service solution to this reversal was to bug the phones of friends of these M.P.s and, in particular, members of the so-called Wilson Circle. This prophetic passage appeared in Auberon Waugh’s column in the […]
[…] DNC, despite repeated, targeted searches by the FBI of every telephone in the office, no bugs had ever been there to be found. I argue that the bug monitored by James McCord’s employee, Alfred Baldwin, was actually in the telephone at the Columbia Plaza – and not in the DNC office of Spencer Oliver. […]
This is the first anonymous article we have ever printed. However, we know the identity of the author and have absolute confidence in the person who provided us with the document. In places we have removed small sections, indicated by the use of brackets (—–), which provided personal details which would have made identifying the … Read more
[…] by the very organisation that unwittingly provided them with cover.” (p309) With this thesis Hougan answers the perplexing question of why the ‘Plumbers’ tried so hard to bug the DNC when most of its politically sensitive operations had been moved elsewhere. The Republicans were after the sexual dirt on the Democrats in the DNC. […]
[…] he won the election in 1968, he would make them a permanent part of the Republican National Committee…’ ‘…in 1944…the British asked the FBI if they could bug American Jews. And Hoover, a great anti-semite himself, said, sure…. we have the British using American equipment to bug American Jews. In England we use American […]
Operation Paget, the investigation by the team led by Sir John Stevens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, briefly tried to investigate a collision between a white Fiat Uno and Princess Diana’s BMW. The head-on collision happened on 22 March 1996, on Cromwell Road, Kensington, when a casino employee lost control of a … Read more
[…] November 1991. ‘The rumbled rouble trauma’, Guardian, 19 November 1991. Guardian 15 November 1991 Spycatcher p. 175 In fact, says Falber, he kept no records. One such bug is pictured on p. 31 of the Independent, 25 November 1989. How was the money used once it reached the CPGB? That is not yet known […]
