[…] 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 […]
[…] that military victory was impossible? There can be little doubt that one factor was the improved performance of the security forces, in particular of the intelligence and surveillance arms. So effective had they become that the journalist, Jack Holland, could write, with only slight exaggeration, that in the 1990s the safest thing to be […]
[…] 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 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 – […]
[PDF file]: […] as being motivated by the highest of ideals: above all his belief that our online privacy needs to preserved, not secretly mined by seemingly unaccountable US Government surveillance agencies. He tells us his act was driven by a deeply moral decision to quite simply ‘tell the truth’ because the ‘abuses I witnessed demanded action’. […]
