[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 […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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]: […] in the 1950s and his role in getting nuclear technology to Israel. The second essay goes into detail about Angleton’s relationship with the FBI and his domestic surveillance operations in the US leading up the assassination of Kennedy. Klarenberg reminds us that: Angleton’s CIA counterintelligence staff ordered Lee Harvey Oswald’s removal from federal watchlists […]
[PDF file]: […] he was appointed head of counter terrorism. During the official inquest into the 2005 attack it was revealed that, over a year before the bombings occurred, a surveillance photograph of 7/7 bombers Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer had been available. However, as the Guardian reported, they were ‘cropped by intelligence officials in such […]
[PDF file]: […] US was orchestrating his 2002 ouster due to the risk he posed of derailing the Iraq war agenda with successful negotiations, his office was packed with hidden surveillance equipment and that his American head of security vanished immediately after this was discovered. “The fact was that the wall behind my desk, the wall behind […]
[…] Assistance10 and David Stirling’s GB75 – had been formed to combat the ‘threat’ from the left.11 The Labour Cabinets of Harold Wilson (1974-76) had been under intense surveillance in the hunt for Soviet influence. Several members, notably Wilson himself, had been burgled. Smear and disinformation campaigns had been run against both Labour and Liberal […]
