[…] MI5 officers, suspected the service’s activities were uncontrolled. MI5, they complained, was a secret conservative group with a historic mission to destabilise the Left.(1) Their fear of surveillance by the secret police required that MI5’s new director should not be hostile to Labour’s cause. Recognising the threat Petrie had attempted to prevent MI5’s emasculation. […]
[…] italics).(2) Reviewing the same book, a former army officer who served in Northern Ireland, Alexander van Straubenzee,(3) describes Nairac as having been ‘a member of the Army Surveillance Unit which became 14th Intelligence and Security Company (14th Int)’ – a new name to me for the unit discussed above.(4) A woman called Oonagh Flynn, […]
[…] this is allowed to happen because there is virtually no political control over the security organisations: when they fuck-up nothing happens to them. MI5 botch a surveillance of an IRA operation and £300 million’s worth of damage is done to the City of London; and nothing happens, no heads roll. MI6 gets involved […]
[…] break-in at Exner’s LA apartment by I. B. Hale, head of General Dynamics corporate security on August 7, 1962, which was observed by the 24 hour FBI surveillance on the president’s mistress. Hersh admits being unable to establish how the ailing arms corporation had come across this information which, it is claimed, enabled pressure […]
[…] of the tap. The GAO’s analysis of these alternatives was classified by the FBI as National Security information, so could not be published in this report. Electronic Surveillance: technologies continue to pose challenges (5 pp.) GAO/T-AIMD-94-173 (testimony), August 1994 Examines changes in the state of technology since the above 1992 report. Although some technical […]
[…] insist that were not recording any images at the time .’ Sancton and Macleo op. cit. p.235 According to NBC ‘….. Paris has the most sophisticated video surveillance system of any city in the world. While not every camera is monitored, all cameras record to videotape. Tapes are saved for 2 days in the […]
[…] name has appeared on some interesting material recently: viz: 14th February 1988, front page story in the Sunday Express based on leak from MI5 – complete with surveillance photograph – on alleged contact between the then Labour MP John Diamond and two Yugoslav women. The article contained the women’s passport numbers and the flights […]
[…] off in London and elsewhere in Europe. The British state appeared to believe that Christie was at the heart of it. But since they had him under surveillance much of the time, they must have known this wasn’t true. For much of this period he was working long hours as a gas fitter, being […]
[…] to wear their hair long and wear indigenous clothing. For a period of some months I worked closely with some officers of this unit on escort and surveillance tasks, but in 1974, when I became aware that it was involved in criminal acts and was being tasked through their HQ 3 Infantry Brigade Staff […]
[…] Chaos.’ But Operation Phoenix, about which Valentine has written a widely-praised book, involved identifying and assassinating supporters of the North Vietnamese, while Operation Chaos was a domestic surveillance and counter-intelligence operation. But still: these quibbles aside, this big book (500 plus pages) is a fascinating collection of stories, and adds some major pieces to […]
