[…] finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from the horse’s mouth. Pincher describes, without quoting directly from, a report, probably originating with MI5, on surveillance of Wilson during January and February 1974: “. . . concern about his pro-Israeli stance . . . anxieties that a new Wilson government might increase […]
[…] finance. 28 Thanks to Pincher, we have most of this from the horse’s mouth. Pincher describes, without quoting directly from, a report, probably originating with MI5, on surveillance of Wilson during January and February 1974: “. . . concern about his pro-Israeli stance . . . anxieties that a new Wilson government might increase […]
[PDF file]: […] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]
[PDF file]: […] a former Commander in the RN with all kinds of secret knowledge about the war against Argentina, was talking to his anti-nuclear, peacenik aunt: full bore investigation; surveillance, phonetaps, mail intercepts, burglaries, harassment. Whatever it takes. And this would have begun before Murrell’s death. Green notes on p. 48: ‘I would have come under […]
[…] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]
[PDF file]: […] his The Folk Singers and the Bureau: The FBI, the Folk Artists and the Suppression of the Communist Party USA 1939-1956. That outstanding volume chronicled the FBI’s surveillance, harassment and persecution of the likes of Peter Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lee Hays, Agnes ‘Sis’ Cunningham and others. It showed how the US state went after […]
[…] this claim of Wright’s. However on p. 403 he writes this: ‘The Security Service had “good coverage” of the secret Soviet funding of the CPGB, monitoring by surveillance and telecheck the regular collection of Moscow’s cash subsidies by two members of the Party’s International Department, Eileen Palmer and Bob Stewart, from the north London […]
[PDF file]: […] ban on such activities by telling the local US Customs Service office that his boat wasn’t fit to sail and needed repairs. The Customs Service obligingly reduced surveillance on Quiza’s vessel on 6 June and, of course, the raiding party immediately set off for Cuba. Naturally, the Customs office was ‘upset and embarrassed by […]
[PDF file]: […] the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff London: Allen Lane, 2026, £25 h/b * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger London: Simon and Schuster, 2025, £20 p/b In 1996 there were no tech companies among the top five companies traded on US exchanges, […]
[…] the Perplexed Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff London: Allen Lane, 2026, £25 h/b * The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State Michael Steinberger London: Simon and Schuster, 2025, £20 p/b In 1996 there were no tech companies among the top five companies traded on US exchanges, […]
