[…] or putting them behind bars. This article certainly explains why Special Branch were involved with the investigation of the case, though at the time the specter of espionage was never raised. It may be argued that the Special Branch came in as a matter of routine because two of those involved were in the […]
[…] minority Sunni elite. Its majority Shia population is not a ‘secular’ one. Corinne Souza’s memoir on Iraq and her father’s SIS service, The Spy’s Daughter: Tales of Espionage from Baghdad to London will be published by Mainstream in March 2003, price £15.99. Notes 1. Even school-children in cafes throughout the Middle East knew that […]
[…] culture, traditions, geography, language and history to the political needs of their respective governments.(16) American anthropologist Jack Sargent Harris was also a clandestine operative engaged in counter- espionage for the OSS in West Africa and in South Africa during World War Two. Declining an offer from the CIA, he also worked for the United […]
[…] almost every congressional district, making cuts politically difficult. There is nothing like a Dame On his blog, Michael John Smith, who wrote about his wrongful conviction for espionage in Lobster 52, reproduces the text of an e-mail he has sent to the publisher of Dame Stella Rimington’s mem-oir.(10) Smith makes the interesting point that […]
[…] in recruiting, those resources for purposes unrelated to fighting crime. These have included the testing of mind-altering drugs on unwitting suspects, recruiting assassins and engaging in political espionage abroad under cover of law enforcement.(2) The story of Oliver North’s similar success in recruiting the DEA bureaucracy throws into sharp relief the hypocrisy of official […]
[…] close friend of Charles Hernu – and like Hernu, a Mason. (Thus Hernu succeeded in keeping the DGSE under his Defence Ministry.) Marion symbolically removed the ‘Counter- espionage’ from the service’s title (up til 1982, SDECE: Service de Documentation Exterieure et de Contre-Espionnage), reining in a counter-espionage division that had clashed frequently in the […]
[…] actions (37 pp.) GAO/OSI-94-2, November 1993. Examines 1) the need for information privacy in computer and communications systems, such as encryption, to mitigate the threat of economic espionage; 2) the development of cryptographic standards for the protection of sensitive unclassified information, and the policies of the NSA, DoD, National Institute of Standards and Technology […]
[…] for Action. PO Box 3069, London SW9 8LU; single issues (including postage) U.K. 1.60; U.S. $4.00, Europe 2.00. Undercover, the British glossy magazine devoted to ‘cover ups, espionage, covert action’ duly folded after five issues. Which was two more than I expected. There just is no general interest in these fields in this country, […]
[…] Moscow and asked him about a British electronics engineer named Michael John Smith, who, in November 1993, was sentenced to 25 years after being found guilty of espionage for the KGB at the end of the 1970s and beginning of 1980s. He was arrested in August 1992, after the defection from Paris of Victor […]
[…] a report for Washington-based Electronic Privacy Information Center (see www.epic.org). Europe The European Parliament may soon ratify proposals to modify international law to deal with international communications espionage, and to set up a temporary special Committee of inquiry (opposed by UK govt) to further investigate Echelon. These proposals, known as the Echelon resolution, drafted […]
