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The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] Atlantic. The British military are trying RFIDs in their 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 […]
The view from the bridge
[PDF file]: […] post-mortem and the following paragraphs are from the executive summary.2 The italicised bits are my comments. 1 2 The report’s executive summary is at . ‘The IMF’s surveillance of the euro area financial regulatory architecture was generally of high quality, but staff, along with most other experts, missed the build-up of banking system risks […]
White Malice: The CIA and the Covert Recolonization of Africa by Susan Williams
[PDF file]: […] And as former head of the U2 programme, nobody knew better than Bissell that the Soviets were not a 3 threat to the US. Prior to those surveillance flights which began in 1957, what was happening behind ‘the iron curtain’, e.g. how many missiles the Soviets had, etc., was unknown and the ‘danger’ belief […]
The secret life of Bellingcat’s so-called ‘Timmi Allen’
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[PDF file]: […] 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 […]
Area 51: An uncensored history of America’s top secret military base by Annie Jacobsen
[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 […]
The Shadow Man: At the Heart of the Cambridge Spy Circle by Geoff Andrews
[PDF file]: […] existence in 1940. At the time this interview took place, MI5 were tapping Klugmann’s phone, his mother’s phone and was having him tailed. Nothing came of this surveillance however. According to Andrews, it is most likely that ‘Kim Philby, by now head of counter-espionage at MI6…. acted to protect him’. Klugmann remained in fear […]
The view from the bridge
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[PDF file]: […] wife. Robert Morrow has noted that Lansdale has been recognised in the photograph by his current biographer, Gregory C. Lavin.24 Morrow quotes Lavin: 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 […]