[…] the Executive Office of the President via the National Security Council. Certain key areas of the judiciary belong to the Deep State, such as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, whose actions are mysterious even to most members of Congress. Also included are a handful of vital federal trial courts, such as the Eastern District […]
[PDF file]: […] story went, were immediately suspicious of Oswald, not least because he spoke no Spanish. The New Orleans DRE therefore turned him down. They had then supposedly mounted surveillance on Oswald and discovered that he was running a New Orleans chapter of the national Fair Play for Cuba Committee.93 During his chapter’s meetings (McCarthy told […]
[PDF file]: […] CPGB Central Committee member George Mathews,315 illustrates Peter Wright’s claim that ‘By 1955 . . . the CPGB was thoroughly penetrated at almost every level by technical surveillance or informants’. With the spreading disillusion in the 1950s, climaxed by the Soviet invasion of Hungary, MI5 can have had little trouble recruiting active and former […]
[PDF file]: […] and The Move and won.2 1 During the period between the appearance of the postcard and the subsequent legal denouement, Secunda and The Move found themselves under surveillance by the state (presumably Special Branch) who followed them on tour around the UK as they promoted ‘Flowers in the Rain’. Wilson’s lack of humour arose […]
[PDF file]: […] German husband, the first having been killed in WW1. It seems that in the 30s MI5 automatically kept people with some sort of link to Germany under surveillance. No motive – political, financial or emotional – was found for her activities. 1 at Moscow (5 December 1941), that the war was now lost, or […]
[PDF file]: […] Irish archives.12 What Stalker established in the cases he examined was that those targeted by the RUC SB, and paramilitaries operating on their behalf, were often under surveillance for lengthy periods prior to being killed. It was known that they were unarmed. It was also the case that not all of them were IRA […]
[…] proved fruitless, Manfred’s widow was forced to sign an affidavit stating that she would not tell anyone else what had happened; and Rene’s widow was kept under surveillance for months to see if she would reveal information to anyone else. The two women, who have exercised their right to privacy ever since, were also […]
[PDF file]: […] and Brown governments packed with lawyers with little apparent concern for either the legality of their actions on their far-reaching consequences for human rights and wellbeing. From surveillance and the national security state to the ‘war on terror’ and control orders and rendition, Ewing’s solid, incisive work reaches out to lawyers and journalists, but […]
[PDF file]: […] Trust, which had Victor Lownes, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy gopher, in tow as ‘tantric adviser’. Beresford later believed that Hollingshead was responsible for his being placed under government surveillance; by the time he did, though, Hollingshead had moved back to Leary. Leary was worried that he hadn’t heard from Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom, apparently, […]
