[…] Todd and Bloch’s recurring themes are the anti-civil liberty implications of terrorist legislation, and the supreme failure of the UK and US intelligence forces amidst the ‘new surveillance culture’ of the modern world. This broader culture is formed from three compelling factors: what the authors call the ‘Washington consensus’ on economic organisation (whereby everything […]
[PDF file]: Literary Spying British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 James Smith Cambridge University Press, 2013, £55.00, h/b John Newsinger Smith’s book is an immensely valuable preliminary examination of the British secret state’s surveillance of ‘the left-wing writers and artists’ of George Orwell’s generation. As the author makes clear, the context was very different from the […]
[…] directorates and senior level representatives from Naval Space Command, Army Space Command and Air Force Space Command.(6) The regulations governing the UFO topic is USR 55-12, Space Surveillance Network (SSN) of June 1 1992, classified by multiple sources. ‘This regulation provides policy and guidance for operations of the worldwide Space Surveillance Network (SSN). It […]
[…] Notice Committee), for a pre-publication view of material relating to the SAS. Harper Collins refused. In retrospect, Geraghty told the Observer, ‘its probable I had been under surveillance for some months’. He had some intimations of trouble and ‘got on with the normal, end-of-book weeding of files with more than usual urgency’. What had […]
[…] from the HQMSU unit involved lied at the subsequent trials, partly to conceal the fact that members of Special Branch had been involved in an illegal cross-border surveillance operation. Enter Stalker, ‘high-flyer’ John Stalker, Deputy Chief Constable of the Greater Manchester Police, was asked to investigate the circumstances which surrounded the fabrication of evidence […]
[…] collusion did indeed take place, much of it to be found in the careers and activities of two of the more prominent MI5 officers involved in the surveillance of inter-war fascism, Charles Henry Maxwell Knight and James McGuirk Hughes. Maxwell Knight was recruited to the Security Service by Sir Vernon Kell in April 1925 […]
[…] Politics by Robert Baldwin and Richard Kinsey (Quartet 1982) has a different focus. Where Manwaring-White surveys current police practice primarily through the development of police technology ( surveillance, information handling, weaponry etc.), Baldwin and Kinsey produce a critical look at British policing via sociological observation of a particular (but unnamed) police force. I think […]
[…] war between globalization and democracy Thom Burnett and Alex Games New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Who’s Watching You? The chilling truth about the state, surveillance and personal freedom Mick Farren and John Gibb New York: The Disinformation Company, 2007, p/b, $13.95 Two more from the Disinfo people. At first glance […]
[…] local basis from some police Special Branches. Special Branches also surveilled the unions, the wider left and organisations like CND. Also, and rather important in this period, surveillance and data collection by private sector groups such as the Economic League, the Building Employers Federation, was still important. But we also had American activities to […]
[…] CIA agents stationed in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Syria and Cuba, investigates the history of German involvement in Afghanistan and BND strategy for the area, and reports on the surveillance of the Berlin Alternative List. Two articles reprinted from CAIB and National Reporter cover the CIA and heroin and American war plans for Europe, while in […]
