[…] he was about to make to the Ervin Watergate Committee. Such evasive tactics do not mean very much in today’s age of computerised intelligence. Revelations about Army surveillance of U.S. citizens before another of Senator Ervin’s Committee in 1970 had led to the formal termination of that programme on June 9, 1970, which we […]
[…] time I stumbled across a three-page document issued by the South African intelligence service, in which my name was mentioned as a target to be kept under surveillance. On January 18, 1990, in the course of a letter of complaint to Mr P.R. Killen, the South African Ambassador to the UK, I asked for […]
[…] is now directed at targets in the UK.’(11) Top of the form One of the by-products of the ‘War on Terror’ has been the increased used of surveillance in British schools to help identify potential suicide bombers – dataveillance, as some would term it. According to one observer, ‘the greater detail now requested for […]
[…] and democratic values in new computer and communications technologies.’ A lot of info on the U.S. debate on electronic privacy and the FBI’s attempts to have greater surveillance powers with regard to wireraps and digital/computer communications, e.g. via key recovery. Issues include: cryptography; civil liberties; free speech; privacy; Congress and the Net; counter terrorism; […]
[…] in Rights (NCCL) Summer 1984 (See publications in this issue) And in a leaflet accompanying that issue, which claims that: raid had a code-name; shop was under surveillance for 18 months; mail had been opened. Leaflet from Gay’s The Word Campaign, 38 Mount Pleasant, London WC1X 0AP Association of Chief Police Officers With recent […]
[…] MI6) and Bonn reached a new low. Many of the leading SPD figures, including Brandt when he had been Mayor of West Berlin, had been placed under surveillance by the BND. In 1967, BND founder and head General Gehlen had commissioned an inquiry into Egon Bahr. An Ambassador in the Foreign Office and a […]
[…] – it saves time and endless repetition of a mouthful. Or should I say: I use the term security agencies in place of the intelligence, security and surveillance services, MI6, MI5, GCHQ. Or should I say: I use the term security agencies to stand for the intelligence, security, surveillance and disinformation services? Because disinforming […]
[…] plates on M1. (See also New Scientist for details 12th January 1984). The system, linked to the Police National Computer (PNC) at Hendon, provides 24 hour automatic surveillance of the movements of all cars whose licences are on the PNC. This smells like the beginning of the introduction of something like the system now […]
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 […]
[…] 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 […]
