[…] was involved in paying bribes to Mr. D. Hatton in return for planning consents and preferential treatment re: land deals. Mr. Spencer was put under 24 hour surveillance by Liverpool drugs squad because of his association with Mr. Bobby McGorrin an alleged drugs dealer. Mr. McGorrin was associated with the Hughes twins described as […]
[…] them seem to have retired or been retired) a bunch of paranoid fruit-cakes. But then a group which has persuaded itself that the British left is worth surveillance and disruption will believe anything. Meanwhile, somewhere on the outskirts of Moscow, groups of Soviet government officials will be meeting to have a good laugh over […]
[…] the formal pretext perhaps, was a tip to the FBI from what the Americans call a Republican ‘political operative’, Roger Stone.(3) The system then put Spitzer under surveillance worthy of a major terrorist threat and duly caught him with his pants down. Kow-towing to the moneylenders Every once in a while Polly Toynbee (apparently […]
[…] each other. It is intended to look and be frightening’. AMAC was formed out of J. P. Cors Ltd, and appears to be involved in arms, vetting surveillance and security services. It has backing from Legal and General Assurance Society Ltd, with one L and G’s personnel on AMAC’s board. Bernard Vaizey’s various air […]
[…] interest only. However, in issue 65, October 1990, there is a 15 page summary of approximately 1000 pages of declassifed material on U.S. (predominantly State Department sponsored) surveillance of the New Zealand left and unions between 1945 to 1960. As far as I am aware, this is the most complete picture yet of such […]
[…] Assassination Archives Record Board, which has provided a huge trove of additional material — multiple Oswalds, formerly censored files from the House Commission in the 70s, Government surveillance of the Garrison investigation. The Fourth Decade had a great mix of scholarship and good writing – exemplified by ‘You Don’t Know Me But You Will: […]
[…] Paul Foot and Fred Holroyd. Only weeks after publication, the book’s printers mysteriously burned down in Dundalk and for many years Lindsay was subjected to harassment and surveillance. Possibly for these reasons he had withdrawn from the public forum for some years past and developed a highly successful, hi-tech, academic book distribution business, still […]
[…] brisk summaries of his own earlier books (in 43 pages!); the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the CIA’s former psyops and political action programmes in light drag; surveillance and the Echelon story; the CIA and drug trafficking; and so on. In short, Blum has managed a kind of summary – with documentation – of […]
[…] Churchill knew that he could not trust either Halifax or a large part of the Conservative Party. Londonderry, Buccleugh and Westminster, for example, were all placed under surveillance at various times. (75) Hoare was appointed British Ambassador to Spain. Although the approaches to Germany continued they had to become increasingly indirect and conspiratorial if […]
Here are a few more web sites that may be of interest. Thanks for contributions to David Guyatt, Terry Hanstock, Daniel Brandt, Chris Atton and Tony Hollick. Further contributions and comments are welcome: my e-mail is Politics and government USA DoE Office of Human Radiation Experiments http://www.ohre.doe.gov/ ‘OHRE, established in March 1994, leads the … Read more
