[…] on 26 Oct. 2001, greatly expands the ability of law enforcement and intelligence agencies to tap phones, monitor email and internet traffic and conduct other forms of surveillance in pursuit of terrorists. A key feature is its provisons requiring increased sharing of information among law enforcement and national security personnel at all levels of […]
[…] of the lowest form of human behaviour.’ (Redden, p.5) Redden’s Snitch Culture is an enormously detailed and documented account of the history and practice of the state’s surveillance of the domestic population in America. It covers everything from the apparently trivial – campaigns to get kids still in primary school to snitch on their […]
The clandestine world of surveillance, spying and intelligence from ancient times to the post 9/11 world Ernest Volkman London: Carlton, 2007, h/b, £20 This is a lavishly and creatively illustrated, large format, (i.e. slightly bigger than A4) glossy paper, coffee-table book on the history of espionage. A former journalist with Newsday, and author […]
Leonard Doyle, Guardian 24th February 1984. Sued by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) for illegal surveillance of private citizens, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) settled out of court. LAPD’s Public Disorder and Intelligence Division were accused of ‘organising a massive spying operation providing right-wing organisations with a sophisticated computer and handing on extensive […]
[…] fifty Protestants stoning a Catholic church, hospitalising fourteen of them in the process. He transferred to Special Branch early in 1979, joining E4, the department specialising in surveillance, as a detective inspector. From the beginning, he wanted to put the organisation on a more military footing and was always concerned to work as closely […]
Unfree press A recent release of previously undisclosed documents reveals that J. Edgar Hoover ordered the FBI to carry out the illegal surveillance of newspaper labour activists during the 1940s. Also revealed is the fact that informants included journalists who wanted Communists removing from the leadership of the Newspaper Guild.(1) Only following orders Psychologist […]
[…] proof of Soviet contacts with the MPs – not the kind of information which could be obtained by sources within the Parliamentary Labour Party, but by phone-taps, surveillance etc. It is much more likely that MI5 refused to help the Party leadership expose left-wing MPs links with the Soviets – presuming that there were […]
[…] in 1985 that I was granted a low level of security clearance. Throughout the 1980s I had the distinct feeling I was under some sort of covert surveillance, through my awareness of odd phone calls, and strangers acting suspiciously near my home. Later, following my trial, it was admitted that MI5 had put me […]
[…] Kemp and Christine Bott.(14) Lee discovered that an investigation as far back as 1971 had been getting near the truth but had collapsed when the gang under surveillance by the Thames Valley Squad and Customs were robbed of money and drugs by officers of the Met.! According to Detective Constable Martyn Pritchard of the […]
[…] Meanwhile, Kevin J. Lawner ruminates on the impact that the Echelon interception system might have on the right to privacy, concluding that the National Security Agency’s ‘…… surveillance activities in Europe must be subject to rigorous oversight, and guarantees must be provided to safeguard against abuse’. Alan A. Block, ‘The National Intelligence Service […]
