[…] do this is uncertain – the matter remains classified. Satellite imagery is only the most remote possibility, given the darkness and the low-priority of Guyana as a surveillance site. Radio intercepts are a second, more likely, possibility; at present, however, it is unknown if there were transmissions from Jonestown that would have permitted an […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] front organisation. And if an organisation is committed, ultimately, to overthrowing the government, this must make any and all of its members and sympathisers legitimate targets for surveillance. They may not appear to be up to very much, but keep watching: after all, ‘we do not know today what we will need tomorrow’, in […]
[…] only head of counter-intelligence, but also CIA liaison with the Israelis and the FBI; he ran labour operations in Europe with Jay Lovestone; took responsibility for the surveillance of the American opposition to the Vietnam War; and, finally and fatally for his career, obsessively poked through the CIA for a ‘mole’ he believed was […]
[…] such astounding technology has been patchy and anecdotal.(1) But the report confirms that the citizens of Britain and other European states are subject to an intensity of surveillance far in excess of that imagined by most parliaments. Its findings are certain to excite the concern of MEPs. ‘The ECHELON system forms part of the […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] – 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 […]
