[PDF file]: […] of how far the Secret State had become involved in the dispute. It ran covert operations against NUM members and on occasion committed murder.18 It used electronic surveillance by GCHQ and employed a network of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk […]
[PDF file]: […] of the Communist Party of Britain and Class War’ (hence the emphasis) and that he would seem to have been careful not to use the term ‘ surveillance’. What is also immediately obvious is that any decision to have ‘closed down the study of the Communist Party of Britain and Class War’ would not […]
[PDF file]: […] authoritarian rule of a class of wholly corrupt super rich oligarchs. One interesting point he makes is that even after the collapse of Communism, ‘the level of surveillance in Russia had not eased’. (pp. 69-70) And, of course, Vladimir Putin was to take control of the country by the end of the century. This […]
[PDF file]: […] the preamble, while the rest was drafted by experts to privilege the permanent members of the Security Council. 3 See, inter alia, Frank Donner, The Age of Surveillance (1980), Ward Churchill & Jim Vanderwall, The Cointelpro Papers (1990). 4 Tony Benn (1925-2014) ‘After the war people said, “If you can plan for war, why […]
[…] of how far the Secret State had become involved in the dispute. It ran covert operations against NUM members and on occasion committed murder.18 It used electronic surveillance by GCHQ and employed a network of spies and informers, some in the heart of the mining communities.19 These informers (whose identities would be at risk […]
[PDF file]: […] Secretary of the senior civil servants’ trade union, the First Division Association. She lists being a former member, ‘Advisory Board of PGI Protection Group International (executive protection, surveillance and risk consulting) (interest ceased 7 August 2018)’. PGI’s website has a section on Cyber security. As ever, its people come largely from government intelligence and […]
[…] Party, (2) the institutional agenda of the intelligence and security agencies, and (3) the narrative power and moral fervor of the media with (4) the tech companies’ surveillance architecture. The claim that Russia hacked the 2016 vote allowed federal agencies to implement the new public-private censorship machinery under the pretext Clint Watts and Andrew […]
[PDF file]: […] to stop Siddique Khan before 7/7 they are also admitting that they have no evidence that he was actually a suicide bomber. Despite their many hours of surveillance of Khan they never came across anything suggesting he was preparing to kill himself or anyone else. Thus, in slowly revealing tidbit-by-tidbit what information they did […]
[…] American politicians? A couple of of interesting essays about the CIA recently. Covert Action has editor Jeremy Kuzmarov’s account of the joint CIA and New Zealand SIS surveillance operations in the 1980s against the New Zealanders who opposed the expansion of US bases in their country.28 The Intercept describes how the CIA used the […]
[…] move with RFID (Nashville (US): Thomas Nelson, 2005) 15 warehouses. In an article written after the book was published, the authors report tell us that ‘Cincinnati video surveillance company CityWatcher.com now requires employees to use VeriChip human implantable microchips to enter a secure data centre’;16 and the US government has begun producing passports with […]
