[…] a possible scenario. When the American files are opened to inspection ten or twenty years from now, it won’t be surprising if, together with records of FBI surveillance of NORAID, there are also records of covert meetings between CIA and NORAID ‘representatives’. The actual mechanisms of the British state Considering the deposing of […]
[…] possible Kurdish origins of the Palme murder. Sanctioned by Justice Minister Anna-Greta Leijon, the two officers assisted a friend of the Minister’s, Ebbe Carlsson, in illegally obtaining surveillance equipment to continue investigations into the Kurdish PKK after the investigation had officially been abandoned. When Customs discovered SAPO agent Per Ola Karlsson with the equipment, […]
[…] 1969 Army Training manual stated that their tasks included ‘the ambush and harassment of insurgents, the infiltration of sabotage, assassination and demolition parties into insurgent-held areas, border surveillance liaison with, and organisation of friendly guerrilla forces operating against the common enemy’. (3) Examples were found during the Mau-Mau rebellion in Kenya during the mid-fifties, […]
[…] On April 8, 1986, according to the Los Angeles Times, President Reagan ‘issued a top secret national security decision directive that enabled the government to use military surveillance and intelligence capabilities in its drug fight. The directive…. for the first time said that the international drug trade is a national security concern, because of […]
[…] was overridden by the implications of the Tyler Kent affair.’ Tyler Kent was a cypher clerk in the American Embassy in London. He had been under MI5 surveillance for some 7 months during which he had made contact with members of the Right Club, the hard-core pro-Nazis in London lead by the dotty Tory […]
[…] was a favourite phrase. The fact that Hewitt safely negotiated the tunnel at high speed and drunk went unremarked.(53) Diana and the intelligence services Diana was under surveillance by UK and American intelligence, although none of the records have been made public. Mohamed Al Fayed has attempted to get sight of these under the […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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, […]
[…] 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 […]
