[…] inaugurated and perpetuated the Cold War.” (17) A host of demons are being exorcised here: the revisionist historiography of the Cold War; Dallas; Watergate; Vietnam; Cointelpro; domestic surveillance run amok as everybody from the IRS downwards tapped, taped, planted, bugged, and (yes) assassinated – all of it swept away (‘fashionable mythology’) after the revelations […]
[…] to the ‘consistent harassment, pressure and bullying’ which he and his publisher, HarperCollins, had been subjected to over the The Irish War, which included information about computer surveillance methods used in Northern Ireland. The internet allowed people living in repressive regimes, or rebel groups, to get information out whilst keeping their identities and locations […]
[…] AGENCY 80’S DEPUTY SEC. BBC RADIO MATES, MARY ROSAMUND (PATON) MI5 (C) DIVORCED WIFE OF MICHAEL MATES M.P. MAWHOOD, LT-COL. J.C. MI5 (P.281 ‘THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL SURVEILLANCE IN AUSTRALIA’, FRANK CAIN ANGUS & ROBERTSON 1983) 1941 + VISITED AUSTRALIA TO HEAD INQUIRY INTO SECURITY SERVICE AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE MENDL, SIR CHARLES KT (1924) […]
[…] Brown might well adapt to his requirements but is unlikely to change fundamentally. Intelligence-based policing, the framework for an eventual introduction of investigating judges, a culture of surveillance (such as identity cards) and the centralisation of all aspects of internal security will be in position for wider implementation. Ordinary citizens are going to be […]
[…] truly odd thing is that this geo-political grovelling for intelligence crumbs didn’t do much good. Urban’s book is a long catalogue of failures. For all the global surveillance of the National Security Agency and its minor allies in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, British (that is US) intelligence were completely taken by surprise by […]
[…] the public recognition that, as far as the spook industry is concerned, the view of this society long held by its left-wing is fundamentally correct. Coups, bugging, surveillance, wiretapping, Special Branch, moles – the first 60% of this reads like a precis of State Research.(With some conspicuous omissions: Agee/Hosenball and the ABC trial, both […]
[…] Laos during the Vietnam War. It is an enthralling read, the narrative rattles along, and the account of the climax of the mission and exfiltration of the surveillance team after a fire-fight with the Viet Cong is nicely done. It reads like a thriller – and would make a good movie, I suspect – […]
[…] year or so. The first was in the memoir of Field Marshall (Lord) Michael Carver in which, though not naming MRF, Carver acknowledged the existence of ‘ surveillance operations by soldiers in plain clothes ……initiated by Frank Kitson when he commanded the brigade in Belfast, some of them exploiting ex-members or supporters of the […]
[…] the security services managed to keep the affair quiet for fear of revealing their own roles. RUC detectives had had McGrath and another warden, Joseph Mains, under surveillance in 1975. But it wasn’t until an article in the Irish Independent in 1980 that a real enquiry took place. Led by Supt. George Carsey, it […]
[…] being emitted from Manzano/Coyote Canyon area. Dr. Bennewitz also produced several photographs of flying objects taken over the general Albuquerque area. He has several pieces of electronic surveillance equipment pointed at Manzano and is attempting to record high frequency electrical beam pulses. Dr. Bennewitz claims these Aerial Objects produce these pulses…….. After analyzing the […]
