[PDF file]: […] condemned by Senator McCarthy? Partly it was the relative strength of the Left in Britain that would Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones, We Know All About You: The Story of Surveillance in Britain and America (Oxford: OUP, 2017) . 1 have resisted a more full-blooded purge. Many Labour MPs would have opposed it. And a British McCarthyism […]
[…] The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what the […]
[…] The files, totaling over 230,000 pages, largely reinforce the official conclusion that James Earl Ray acted alone in King’s assassination, though they also detail the extensive FBI surveillance and harassment of King. ‘Largely reinforce’? I suspect ‘totally reinforce’ would be more accurate. (This, presumably, is this merely a summary of comment on what the […]
[PDF file]: […] MI6, but claims that when he learned the immediate target was McCann, he decided to play a double game. Marks warned McCann that MI6 had him under surveillance and therefore probably knew about his smuggling operation at Shannon Airport.21 Although it was late 1972 when Marks was recruited by MI6, the agency would have […]
[PDF file]: […] that the British state tried (and failed) 47 to convict and imprison him. An article on The Intercept listed UK attendees: ‘Robert Hannigan, current chief of British surveillance agency GCHQ; Sir David Omand, former GCHQ chief; Sir Malcolm Rifkind, former head of the British parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee; Lord Butler 44 Who are […]
[…] bin Salman, whom Trump “likes a lot”. (Emphasis in the original.) The two men are Esam Ghazzawi and Omar al-Bayoumi. Of Ghazzawi, Baker notes: ‘Phone records and surveillance videos of their gated community showed frequent contact with the hijackers, including lead hijacker Muhammad Atta’. The liberal website Propublica noted last year: FBI agents identified […]
[PDF file]: […] account of this in 1974-6: the rise of the anti-subversion lobby (he mentions Brian Crozier’s ISC but not IRD); the so-called private armies, GB75 and Unison; the surveillance and bugging of many on the left; the smear campaigns 1 The author does not mention the Soviet money. MI5 had been tracking the Soviet funds […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] Labour Party leader, Harold Wilson, boasted to the assembled businessmen of how, when in office, he had MI5 keep left-wing leaders of the trade union movement under surveillance, ‘tapped or bugged’. Indeed, during the 1966 Seamen’s Strike Wilson had received MI5 briefings on the dispute twice a day. According to Martin Furnival Jones, MI5’s […]
