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 […]
[…] they lecture you in a mechanical voice, devoid of emotion, repeating endlessly their own market logic: it is the voice of Hazel Blears, speaking from the interactive surveillance cameras that will soon oversee all our lives. The Mr. Blobby face of Blears represents the next step in the Blairite evolution of Thatcher’s Britain, into […]
[…] of this time Mohamed was … , an operative for the CIA and FBI, and a member of the U.S. Army.(6) … Mohamed turned up in FBI surveillance photos as early as 1989, training radical Muslims who would go on to assassinate Jewish militant Meir Kahane and detonate a truck bomb at the World […]
[…] by the police – as well as internally. For this reason, the public is told: ‘…..fraud investigators from the Benefit Agency are being taught how to use surveillance techniques by former SAS and MI6 officers. The company, AMA Associates, a security agency, has coached nearly 1000 government fraud officers on a Professionalism in Security […]
Gone but not forgotten: a further update on Di Terry Hanstock This update follows on from my earlier articles in Lobster 38 and Lobster 39 Never was the old adage ‘She’s dead but she won’t lie down’ more apt than when applied to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. Although she died almost nine years … Read more
[…] developments in the European Parliament and US Congress outlined above. The agenda for this meeting: www.europarl.eu.int/dg2/hearings/20000222/libe/agenda/en/default.htm For an outline of the four studies on aspects of communications surveillance, (of which IC 2000 is one) produced for the STOA panel of the EP (and arising from an earlier study, An Appraisal of Technologies of Political […]
[…] Throat’s own perspective. In a meeting with Woodward just before the Watergate hearings were to begin, Throat told the reporter that: Everyone’s life is in danger (E)lectronic surveillance is going on and we had better watch it. () Who was responsible? C-I-A Now, there’s a story! But I don’t remember seeing it in the […]
[…] and inventions to foreign governments. These included the USSR — who bought details of the particle beam weapon from him in 1937. Tesla was kept under FBI surveillance from the 1920s onward. For an academic work, Seifer’s book bravely treads in areas other more traditional authors would avoid. He shows the interest prominent scientific […]
[…] and not to compromise on the working of those markets even where they create the opportunity for crime. There is thus no other policy available than increased surveillance and trans-national co-operation once the pass has already been sold on free movement of peoples, goods, services and pathogens. The security forces’ role as agent of […]
[…] and file numbers, which facilitates FOIA requests for the docs. The Irish War http://jya.com/irish-war.htm The chapter of Tony Geraghty’s book which describes the covert war and computer surveillance methods used in Northern Ireland, and for which Geraghty was charged under the Official Secrets Act in May 1999 – though the book’s still on sale. […]
