[…] 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 […]
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
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] had been involved in the revolt. Dillais himself commanded the Greenpeace operation from the Hyatt Hotel in Auckland. Major Alan Mafart, the leader of the captured ‘Satanic’ surveillance team, was Dillais’ former deputy commander at the diving school and one of the ringleaders of the 1981 rebellion. As a result of the Greenpeace operation […]
[…] Common Cause in the 1950s, and had written for Aims of Industry.(7) Professor Fred Halliday’s presence is on this list may explain why he was put under surveillance by MI5. Halliday was already on the Anglo-American subversion-spotter’s list because of his association with the Institute for Policy Studies in the USA. The subversion spotters […]
[…] secret state. After an opening discussion of the philosophical basis of their analysis, they methodically work through the historical and legal background to the extant legislation on surveillance, vetting, secrecy, bugging, the status and (non) accountability of the security and intelligence services, and so forth. While the descriptive detail is overwhelming in itself, the […]
[…] credentials and a long background in MI6. Zeus, then operated by ex-MI5 officer, Jeremy Wetherall, of another security firm, Lynx, was given the contract to organise the surveillance, which they sub-contracted to Sapphire Investigation Bureau, run by Barrie Peachman. The story of Peachman, his use of the unsavoury far rightist, Vic Norris, who claims […]
