[…] 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 […]
[…] the Snowdon revelations of 4 5 6 The complete transcript, over 200 pages of it, a fascinating read, is at On Rometsch see . the NSA/GCHQ’s global surveillance ambitions. The Home Affairs Committee asked to question the head of MI5; the Home Secretary, Teresa May, duly refused on the grounds that his appearance would […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
