[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
