[…] real heart of the Watergate affair. He sees the burglary as a cover for other illegal activities being carried on in the same district: namely, a CIA-controlled surveillance of a call-girl set-up which is providing information on both Democrats and Republicans in Washington. Problems arose when the operation began to be threatened with exposure […]
[…] working with right-wing and racist organisations in operations against the civil rights movement; specifically that special forces personnel returning from Vietnam were assigned to carry out the surveillance of Dr. King and his colleagues in the days preceding his assassination. This is discussed in an interview with Mark Lane in Flatlands (see above) and […]
Reflections on the ‘cult of the offensive’: pre-emptive war, the Israel lobby and US military Doctrine In our book, Spies, Lies and the War on Terror,(1) a central theme is the ascendancy of pre-emptive war doctrine in US military strategy and its impact on public perceptions and the construction of political narrative. A parallel and […]
[…] UK is no longer a world military power but merely a cash-strapped proxy for the US, dependent upon US weapons systems and intelligence from the US-dominated global surveillance system. (I don’t take seriously recent newspapers stories about the UK creating a defensive missile screen and building – or acquiring – new aircraft carriers.) He […]
[…] the ADL with the Jewish community, Western Goals with the right, and PRA with the left. But by using the same methods of collecting information — garbage surveillance, infiltration of target groups, and the use of guilt-by-association in their propaganda — each of these three groups has perverted itself with clandestinism and denunciation for […]
[…] it surprising that, as far as I know, no one has interviewed Philip Agee in connection with Mexico. His CIA Diary (London 1975) provides revealing background material on the CIA in Mexico City, and particularly actions against Soviet and Cuban embassies including: photo and audio surveillance, and the use of the Mullen Agency for ‘cover’.
[…] – Committee of 100 fellow-travellers rather than Labour Party stooges as we then saw CND. Spies for Peace gave a lot of us a taste for counter-government surveillance and I spent more weekends than I can remember over the next two years being driven about southern England by my girl-friend in her green Mini […]
[…] a coup. For if any state agency in the U.S. could be presumed to know about alien landings etc., it would be the NSA with its global surveillance cover. What Bobby Ray Inman said Mr Good begins chapter 10 with an alleged encounter between Admiral Inman and Bob Oeschler in May 1988 and the […]
[…] security post 9/11’, Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, 28 (2), Summer 2008, pp. 317-342. Background information on Operation Kratos can be found here: CILIP survey on police, surveillance and libraries, June 2008For more on the impact of the ‘War on Terror’ on UK libraries, see John Pateman, ‘Libraries and liberty’, Public Library Journal, 23 […]
[…] on the board of the MI6-front organisation, the Hakluyt Foundation, Logan comments ‘it is difficult not to conclude that Mrs Smith was placed there for purposes of surveillance’. Actually it is easy not to conclude this; and since Logan appears to know no more about Lady Smith than the rest of us – that […]
