[…] 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 […]
[…] under threat from the Left. Notable examples are the anti-Bolshevik panics of the 1920s, the attempted destabilisation of Labour governments in the 1960s and 1970s, and the surveillance of trade unionists (notably the striking miners) in the 1980s. This is an important historiographic breakthrough which Porter, in view of his previous works, is ideally […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] with dealing with defectors and imaginary moles. Wright’s Spycatcher topples that idea very easily. West fails to mention all those areas which made Spycatcher so interesting: the surveillance of political groups, of embassies, liaison with GCHQ, the use of computers, operations abroad, contacts with the CIA etc. The picture is less distorted when we […]
[…] the press: access to her was always tightly controlled and these days she is wholly unavailable. She gave up very little in real terms: some information on surveillance which anyone not asleep at the wheel has taken for granted for years; some fragments on the MI5-MOD-Tory Party operations against CND; and one (conveniently dead) […]
[…] speaker at the meeting) and Innocent.(1) Such organisations, said McMahon, were often vilified by the authorities, and their members subjected to harassment, including telephone interference, e-mail interception, surveillance and even wrongful arrest and malicious prosecution, all of which, McMahon said, he has experienced. In addition the police refused to respond or investigate when he […]
John Diamond Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2008, h/b. No price is stated but it’s around $30 on-line. In The Guardian on 4 March 2009 William Dalrymple wrote: ‘Eight years of neocon foreign policies have been a spectacular disaster for American interests in the Islamic world, leading to the advance of Hamas and Hezbollah, the … Read more
[…] headquartered in caves have laid waste Wall Street, killing thousands of Americans. Constitutional protections have been suspended, superseded or exempted to death, while a new regime of surveillance unfolds in the heartland. Surely, it is time that we put an end to the name calling, and begin to follow the evidence. All of the […]
