[…] local basis from some police Special Branches. Special Branches also surveilled the unions, the wider left and organisations like CND. Also, and rather important in this period, surveillance and data collection by private sector groups such as the Economic League, the Building Employers Federation, was still important. But we also had American activities to […]
[…] Tribunal was established under s65 Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000, which lays down the rules governing interception of communications, acquisition and disclosure of communications data, and surveillance. It is the only body that can hear complaints relating to conduct by the intelligence and security agencies, and complaints about phone-tapping, and is also the […]
[…] recent Director of the Berlitz School in Madrid was none other than CIA officer Alberto Cesar Augusto Rodriguez Gallego, who from 1961-72 was responsible for the photographic surveillance of the Cuban Consulate in Mexico City. This includes the period of “Oswald’s” visit. (On the Madrid item see Intelligence/Parapolitics (Paris) April 1985.) Surveillance pictures of […]
[…] on 26 Oct. 2001, greatly expands the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor email and internet traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of […]
[…] of the lowest form of human behaviour.’ (Redden, p.5) Redden’s Snitch Culture is an enormously detailed and documented account of the history and practice of the state’s surveillance of the domestic population in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their […]
[…] 39, 41, 43, 45, 49) have followed Malcolm Kennedy’s case. The human rights organisation, Liberty, took his complaint about interference with his communications and other forms of surveillance and harassment, to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT), the body set up under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA) to hear complaints relating to […]
[…] Cubans in London and Paris have helped run arms shipments to the IRA – and supplied passports to Palestinian guerrilla factions. Its seventeen diplomats are under constant surveillance. It wasn’t only in the Eye that dubious material appeared in the 1974-76 period. Auberon Waugh wrote in 1978, that only the Spectator and Private Eye […]
There has been much discussion about whether KAL 007 was an overhead intelligence platform or not. This article does not attempt to directly answer this question. Instead it reviews the reasons why the US should attempt technical intelligence gathering around September 1983 – when KAL 007 was downed – and the means available to do … Read more
[…] do this is uncertain – the matter remains classified. Satellite imagery is only the most remote possibility, given the darkness and the low-priority of Guyana as a surveillance site. Radio intercepts are a second, more likely, possibility; at present, however, it is unknown if there were transmissions from Jonestown that would have permitted an […]
[…] aura of political corruption before the First World War – Frans Coetzee – in Historical Journal, December 1986 Military Intelligence and the defence of the realm: the surveillance of soldiers and civilians in Britain during the First World War – David Englander – in British Society for the Study of Labour History, Volume 52, […]
