[PDF file]: […] Orion: 2011, £20, h/b Built round interviews with participants, journalist Jacobson has written an account – not quite a history, really – of the U2 and Blackbird surveillance planes, and their significant role in the Cold War. There are lots of interesting snippets in here, she writes well and this is worth the time […]
[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]: […] 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 […]
[…] 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 well-being. 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]: […] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] As well as Lord Peter Blaker having ‘longstanding connections at the Foreign Office and in British Intelligence’,15 the main conspirators were definitely adopting military/intelligence tactics in their surveillance. This is confirmed by the revelation that, ‘Oyston was now Murrin’s key target codenamed ‘T1’ in correspondence.’16 Michael Murrin may well have been familiar with the […]
[…] The Rise and Fall of New Labour Andrew Rawnsley London: Penguin/Viking, 2010, £25.00 Ghost Dancers David John Douglass Hastings: Christie Books, 2010, £12.95 The Silent State: Secrets, Surveillance and the Myth of British Democracy Heather Brooke London: William Heinemann, 2010, £12.99 Broonland: The Last Days of Gordon Brown Christopher Harvie London/New York: Verso, 2010, […]
