[…] tried the proper channels.) Or how to find any of the MI5 and Special Branch men who infiltrated and surveilled them? (I’m guessing at the infiltration: the surveillance was obvious.) The main groups/men were: Negro Welfare League (Arnold Ward/Peter Blackman); Colonial Information Bureau (Ben Bradley/Reginald Bridgeman/Desmond Buckle); International African Service Bureau, later Pan African […]
[…] space of a fortnight in February 2006 with a computer being stolen and no trace of a forced entry left behind on either occasion. (4) Threats and surveillance Diana’s confidant Simone Simmons told Paget that in early 1997, Diana allowed her to listen in on a telephone call she had received. ‘Simone Simmons heard […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] MI5 officers, suspected the service’s activities were uncontrolled. MI5, they complained, was a secret conservative group with a historic mission to destabilise the Left.(1) Their fear of surveillance by the secret police required that MI5’s new director should not be hostile to Labour’s cause. Recognising the threat Petrie had attempted to prevent MI5’s emasculation. […]
