[…] as he told the Civil Service Appeal Board, simply making formal an arrangement that had existed on an informal basis for several years. The MOD and the security services had, therefore, three years experience of my work with that unit before I was formally transferred to it on promotion. It is significant that neither […]
Anthony Glees, Philip J. Davies, and John N. L. Morrison London: The Social Affairs Unit, 2006, £20, h/b The Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) is a recent addition to the roster of Whitehall bodies; the motives of those who created it, as the authors show, are obscure and its role to some extent […]
[…] Rackup. He named the site – Haystack – and the personnel stationed there; Col. R.J. Hamilton, Major General George R. Nash, and Major John C. Calhoun. A security officer present stated, ‘Hell there’s no security left’. What Price had described turned out to be a satellite interrogation station which eavesdropped on Soviet space vehicles; […]
[…] used to describe the Iranians who negotiated secret arms deals for nearly a year with senior officials of the Reagan Administration, including Oliver North of the National Security Council. Regan’s dismissive characterization hardly did justice to the sales skills of North’s Mideast contacts. ‘It was a brutal, ugly story,’ said the CIA’s chief operations […]
[…] PGP and other encryption programmes, anonymous remailers, and surfing the internet anonymously); and privacy resources (links to websites on free speech, privacy etc). EPIC Policy Archives; computer security (hackers, information warfare, laws); cryptography policy (who holds the keys to on-line privacy, clipper chip, key escrow, export controls etc); free speech (on the internet, liability, […]
Our Secret Servants: the Shayler affair Things had been going rather well for the British security and intelligence services in the 1990s. Under pressure from the Wright-Wallace-Massiter revelations of the 80s, they had conceded a notional form of parliamentary accountability with the creation of the Intelligence and Security Committee. With members who either knew […]
[…] Activist Alert. Includes GILC’s campaign to remove cryptography from the Wassenaar Arrangement (which aims to prevent the build up of military capabilities that threaten regional or international security and stability, by restricting the proliferation of offensive strategic weapons of war. It treats encryption as a munition, to be restricted as other weapons.) GILC Statement […]
[…] International History Project (http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm), Cuban Missile Crisis (full text of 250 official govt docs at Avalon Project: www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrelcuba/cubamenu.htm) and the Inspector-General’s Survey of the Cuban Operations (Nat Security Archive: www.gwu.edu/ ~nsarchiv/news/ 19980222.htm), the IG’s scathing 1961 critique on the CIA handling of the Bay of Pigs invasion, withheld for 36 years. Gulf War – […]
[…] money. This book ignored microprocessing and limited its nightmarish vision to the dangers posed by Big Brother’s mainframes. One chapter covered the threat posed by the National Security Agency (NSA), the largest U.S. intelligence agency with the world’s best computers, an agency that is not subjected to any oversight. In the mid-1970s the Senate […]
[…] should have been there, but, by one of those ‘coincidences’, flat broke as he was – hitch-hiking to visit Wallace in prison – he was offered some security work abroad and didn’t make it. We gave out copies of Lobster 11, talked briefly, answered one or two questions, said this story of covert manipulation […]
