[…] businessman, Chair of Manchester Conservative Association, whose life and business were ruined by MI5 and the police looking for dirt with which to smear his friend John Stalker, then deputy chief constable of Greater Manchester. (See The Poisoned Tree, Kevin Taylor .) There are two key questions about incidents like these. At what level […]
This began as a review of Deacon’s Truth Twisters by David Teacher, and grew as we both saw bits and pieces we could add to it. Richard Deacon’s The Truth Twisters (McDonald, London 1987: Futura, London 1988) is a classic of Western disinformation purporting to describe Soviet disinformation. Deacon lines up all our favourite state […]
[PDF file]: […] 1964 sections – over 350 pages – on a first whizz through them I noticed the following: * Events in Northern Ireland are strikingly under represented. The Stalker affair, for example, is dismissed in a few lines. 3 major interest to academic students of British intelligence and political history for years to come. Discounted […]
[…] 1964 sections – over 350 pages – on a first whizz through them I noticed the following: * Events in Northern Ireland are strikingly under represented. The Stalker affair, for example, is dismissed in a few lines. * Peter Wright is regularly rubbished; the only claim of his given any credence is his statement […]
A review of Lobster in Green Anarchist, issue 63, Summer 2001
[PDF file]: […] with current issues; Northern Ireland, the 1984 Miners’ Strike, CND, GCHQ, Falklands. As the decade progressed, the scene develops; Airey Neave and Thatcher, the Hilda Murrell killing, Stalker, and the field widens on to hacking and what we might now call cyber-warfare, microwave and low frequency sonic weapons, and later, ECHELON, the Unification Church, […]
[PDF file]: […] integral to counter-insurgency. The visit duly took place in June of 1983, less than a year after the killings in Northern Ireland that lead to the ‘ Stalker Inquiry’. This was a counter-insurgency policy that necessitated police investigation from the UK mainland but which was approved for close observation by visiting foreign police officers. […]
[PDF file]: […] they were being openly watched (i.e. stalked), telling my wife not to get out of the car, but to stay in and lock her door until the stalker went away. We have had a car rammed into our house; vehicles driven at us; shots fired; threatening phone calls to our children; illegal surveillance; stalking; […]
