[…] Mercier Press, Cork and Dublin, 1991 Martin Dillon is a freelance journalist in Northern Ireland with a long career behind him: editor and radio presenter for the BBC in Northern Ireland, co-author of the Penguin Special, Political Murder In Northern Ireland (1973), and author of a biography of Second World War SAS hero Lt. […]
[…] < http://slink.com.com/slink?212215 > There is much more on this at < www.grn.es/electropolucio/omega2002.htm > 3 There is a selection of stories about masts in the UK on the BBC web site at < http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsifs&tab= news&q=mobile+masts&x=13&y=8 > 4 Charles, Loomis, Shyl et al, ‘Electromagnetic Fields, Polychlorinated Biphenyls, and Prostate Cancer Mortality in Electric Utility Workers’ American […]
[…] March 1999 http://www.cyber-rights.org/reports/dti99.htm http://www.epic.org/ This document is no longer on the Labour website, but can be found in the ‘resource list’ at http://www.liberty.org.uk/cacib/ http://www.dti.gov.uk/CII/ana27p.html Computing, January 1999 BBC News February 20 1998: ‘UK Govt dithers on encryption regulation’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/special_report/1998/encryption/newsid _58000/58499.stm Para 84, Interception Capabilities 2000, April 1999, working document of the STOA panel of […]
IRD, home and away The creation of the Information Policy unit in HQ Northern Ireland in 1971 may have been the last occasion on which the classic IRD psy-war operation was created. Evidence of previous examples is hard to find, but skimming through Charles Foley’s Legacy of Strife: Cyprus from rebellion to civil war (Penguin, […]
[…] twenty years ago Ken Livingstone took a sustained interest until the researcher who was generating the questions he was asking in the House of Commons joined the BBC. Now we have Norman Baker, the Liberal-Democrat MP, who has kind of inherited the ‘awkward squad’ mantle from Tam Dalyell. He has had a short Commons […]
[…] and will only act when national courts are unable or unwilling to investigate or prosecute. Ireland Panorama – A Licence to Murder Two-part documentary broadcast by the BBC June 19 and 23 2002 ‘reveals the extent to which some members of the British Intelligence services colluded with – and even tried to direct – […]
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
[…] BBC2 in October/ November devoted to Special Branch accounts of their work against British ‘subversives’ in the 1970s and 80s. There was a rich irony about the BBC broadcasting the first two episodes while David Shayler was on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official […]
Ken Livingstone MP, has been putting dozens and dozens of questions to our state about the cases and allegations of Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace, those bits of the secret state you are allowed to ask questions about, Northern Ireland, psy ops and so on. Putting down such questions is a fairly dispiriting business. Some […]
[…] In Britain antipathy to Israel is not confined to radical Muslims and the ‘far left’. Rubinstein says: ‘One of the most egregious and dangerous examples is the BBC’, and he identifies two its reporters, Orla Guerin – ‘little better than an anti-Israeli propagandist’ – and Barbara Plett for particular criticism. John Pilger and former […]
