[…] Pat and I were visiting. He made his excuses and left within minutes of Pat introducing me. I didn’t know that he was head of A4, MI5’s surveillance unit, at the time. I had assumed he was a spook – a ‘friend at the Home Office’, as Pat used to engagingly phrase it. The […]
[…] them, and excluding what Green actually does believe. In Otter’s case, Davies mocked him, saying that his ‘latest theory is that Miss Murrell was not only under surveillance before her murder but that on the day of the crime she attracted two different hit squads who turned up to kill her and ended up […]
[…] are located, the British state tagged along with the Americans who did have the muscle to police the non-communist world. Third, as the US developed global electronic surveillance systems which the British state could not match, our secret servants came to rely on US-generated intelligence. The fourth reason is that a large part of […]
[…] by Herman is at < http://www.zmag.org/ZMag/articles/hermanmay 98.htm > . 49 This was ‘blow back’ on a grand scale. 50 See James Der Derian, ‘Anti-Diplomacy, Intelligence Theory and Surveillance Practice’ in Espionage Past, Present, Future? edited by Wesley K. Wark (London: Frank Cass, 1994) pp. 37-8. Der Derian is a post-modernist trying to apply his […]
[…] Spring 1983 (Sage Publishing, London) The entire issue is devoted to essays on The American Corporate Network, edited by the distinguished American ‘elite sociologist’ William Domhoff. Articles Surveillance In the Academy Sigmund Diamond, American Quarterly, Spring 1984. “In 1927 Yale University secretly established an investigative apparatus for carrying out certain parietal functions. By the […]
[…] British Left and trade unions. While MI5 have been repeatedly portrayed as bumbling incompetents where Soviet subversion was concerned, the evidence we have is clear that their surveillance and penetration of the British labour movement has been far more extensive than the British Left realises. This is why we can’t see our files; and […]
[…] ‘Oh New Zealand seems a long way away, so why take an interest?’ it should be noted that N.Z. is a member of the American-dominated intelligence and surveillance network of which Britain is another junior member, and what goes on down under can inform us about developments in this benighted isle. New Zealander Nicky […]
[…] coup, include: the planting of false stories about Haughey in the British press. Irish Counter Intelligence (CI) put the MI5 officer responsible for the false stories under surveillance. But some of the CI people were the Special Branch personnel recruited by MI5 (see 1 above). When MI6 offered a £100,000 bribe to one of […]
[…] eye, heart and behaviour.’ The Department of Defense keeps track of medical research in this field. Minutes from TERP’s 1 May 1989 meetings recommends that ‘any medical surveillance criteria’ on the ‘vulnerability, survivability and Effects of Electro-magnetic Beams’ would play a crucial role in the outcome of research.(15) The U.S. Navy seems the most […]
[…] recruitment of vulnerable targets, initial deception concerning group affiliation and purposes, extreme forms of peer-group pressure, isolation from mainstream society, sensory overload, sleep and protein deprivation, constant surveillance, enforced lack of privacy, and ideological indoctrination — that serve to set cults apart from more ordinary organizations in modern industrialized societies. (4) And it is […]
