[…] the Snowdon revelations of 4 5 6 The complete transcript, over 200 pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . the NSA/GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]
[…] proved fruitless, Manfred’s widow was forced to sign an affidavit stating that she would not tell anyone else what had happened; and Rene’s widow was kept under surveillance for months to see if she would reveal information to anyone else. The two women, who have exercised their right to privacy ever since, were also […]
[…] Tory Party’s biggest financial donors. See . 46 and imprison him.47 An article on The Intercept 4 8 listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler of Brockwell, member […]
[PDF file]: […] pushing his Playing to the Edge. He expected that he was going to have to spend a lot of his time defending ‘Bush-era tactics that included electronic surveillance, metadata collection, renditions, detentions, interrogations, and targeted killings’, trying to convince his audience that after 9/11 ‘we had to play to the legal and ethical edge’. […]
[PDF file]: […] protests of the 1960s and resolved ‘never again’. 9/11 was the green light for the deep state to move into action: warrantless arrests, no fly lists, mass surveillance, data mining, and anti-terrorist ‘fusion centres’ of military and civil organisations. If deep politics is ‘all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are […]
[PDF file]: […] while often presented in an off-hand or even slightly amused way, some of the historical asides are horrifying in their implications. One such example is the extensive surveillance MI5 imposed on the undeniably brilliant polymath Jacob Bronowski. It is alleged that Bronowski had to eventually emigrate to the U.S. to find any decent work […]
[PDF file]: […] Orion: 2011, £20, h/b Built round interviews with participants, journalist Jacobson has written an account – not quite a history, really – of the U2 and Blackbird surveillance planes, and their significant role in the Cold War. There are lots of interesting snippets in here, she writes well and this is worth the time […]
[PDF file]: […] account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds […]
