[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] a spy within the labour movement. (Tribune of March 1 printed a transcript of some of the programme.) Massiter said she was put in charge of the surveillance of CND: ‘It was perceived as more than ever necessary that we had to be able to answer very precisely whatever questions we were asked about […]
[…] a collection of essays edited by Wesley K. Wark gets pretty short shrift from me. However, in one of the more abstruse essays, ‘Anti-diplomacy, Intelligence Theory and Surveillance’, under a sub-heading ‘Intertextualism and International Theory’, we read this: ‘An intertext, defined by the semiologist Roland Barthes as a “multi-dimensional space in which a variety […]
[…] to cause explosions, made a speech from the dock in which he noted that ‘MI5 claims to have had the alleged IRA active service unit under constant surveillance yet allegedly lost them every time a bomb was planted…..’ – from this concluding that ‘MI5 was willing to allow the devices to go off in […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] strategies could be effective only in the wider context of the incorporation of the working class into the political order.” Blowing the gaffers Paul Demetriou Leveller/Monochrome April 1985 Interview with unnamed MI5 officer: details tapping, break-ins, surveillance (some of them included in the Clippings Digest). This is an important companion piece to the Massiter revelations.
