#mi5

kuchinster@hub.hubzilla.de

The Media and the Secret State

Image/photoharry haller wrote the following post Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:07:08 +0100

“Unlike France, where secret service has always remained a less than respectable activity, consigned to the fringes of government, in post-war Britain it was at the very centre.” Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch in their detailed analysis of global intelligence conclude that “Britain remains the most secretive state in the Western hemisphere.” (...) Significantly, from the 1980s onwards, a raft of legislation has both reinforced the secret state’s growing powers and protected it from probing media.

The 1989 Security Services Act (actually drafted by MI5 lawyers) placed the service on a statutory basis for the first time and provided it with legal powers to tap phones, bug and burgle houses and intercept mail.

The UK Press Gazette commented (6 September 1993): “The greatest invasion of privacy is carried out every day by the security services, with no control, no democratic authorisation and the most horrifying consequences for people’s employment and lives. By comparison with them the press is a poodle.”

The 1989 Official Secrets Act (OSA) replaced the 1911 OSA, which had proved notoriously cumbersome, particularly after civil servant Sarah Tisdall was jailed in 1983 for leaking to the Guardian government plans for the timing of the arrival of cruise missiles in England.

Then followed the acquittal of top civil servant Clive Ponting charged under Section 2 (1) of the OSA after he leaked information showing the government had misled the House of Commons over the sinking of the Argentinean ship, the Belgrano, during the Falklands conflict of 1982.

The 1989 Act covered five main areas: law enforcement, information supplied in confidence by foreign governments, international relations, defence,and security and intelligence.

The publishing of Ponting-style leaks on any of these subjects was banned. Journalists were also denied a public interest defence.

Nor could they claim in defence that no harm had resulted to national security through their disclosures.

The Intelligence Services Act of 1993 created the Intelligence and Security Committee which meets in secret to overview services’ activities, reporting to the prime minister and not parliament. Following the 1996 Security Service Act, MI5’s functions were extended to “act in support of the prevention and detection of crime.”

The incoming Labour government then moved to extend the powers allowing the intelligence services and other government agencies to conduct covert surveillance.

THE MEDIA AND THE SECRET STATE | Richard Keeble - Academia.edu — https://www.academia.edu/10766319/THE_MEDIA_AND_THE_SECRET_STATE

25 page excerpt from a book. #uk #gb #assange #press #media #mi5 #mi6 #secretservices #academiaedu #richardkeeble

#britain #england #anglo-saxons #intelligence #spying #deepstate total #censorship #1984 #hisotry #humanrights is #Western fake

harryhaller@diasp.eu

“Unlike France, where secret service has always remained a less than respectable activity, consigned to the fringes of government, in post-war Britain it was at the very centre.” Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch in their detailed analysis of global intelligence conclude that “Britain remains the most secretive state in the Western hemisphere.”
(...)
Significantly, from the 1980s onwards, a raft of legislation has both reinforced the secret state’s growing powers and protected it from probing media.

The 1989 Security Services Act (actually drafted by MI5 lawyers) placed the service on a statutory basis for the first time and provided it with legal powers to tap phones, bug and burgle houses and intercept mail.

The UK Press Gazette commented (6 September 1993): “The greatest invasion of privacy is carried out every day by the security services, with no control, no democratic authorisation and the most horrifying consequences for people’s employment and lives. By comparison with them the press is a poodle.”

The 1989 Official Secrets Act (OSA) replaced the 1911 OSA, which had proved notoriously cumbersome, particularly after civil servant Sarah Tisdall was jailed in 1983 for leaking to the Guardian government plans for the timing of the arrival of cruise missiles in England.

Then followed the acquittal of top civil servant Clive Ponting charged under Section 2 (1) of the OSA after he leaked information showing the government had misled the House of Commons over the sinking of the Argentinean ship, the Belgrano, during the Falklands conflict of 1982.

The 1989 Act covered five main areas: law enforcement, information supplied in confidence by foreign governments, international relations, defence,and security and intelligence.

The publishing of Ponting-style leaks on any of these subjects was banned. Journalists were also denied a public interest defence.

Nor could they claim in defence that no harm had resulted to national security through their disclosures.

The Intelligence Services Act of 1993 created the Intelligence and Security Committee which meets in secret to overview services’ activities, reporting to the prime minister and not parliament. Following the 1996 Security Service Act, MI5’s functions were extended to “act in support of the prevention and detection of crime.”

The incoming Labour government then moved to extend the powers allowing the intelligence services and other government agencies to conduct covert surveillance.

THE MEDIA AND THE SECRET STATE | Richard Keeble - Academia.edu — https://www.academia.edu/10766319/THE_MEDIA_AND_THE_SECRET_STATE

25 page excerpt from a book.
#uk #gb
#assange #press #media
#mi5 #mi6 #secretservices
#academiaedu #richardkeeble

mlansbury@despora.de

Moscow & Tehran are behind spike in terror plots, #MI5 spy chief says

The #UK is facing an uptick of #assassination attempts on its soil by #Russia and #Iran, the head of the domestic intelligence agency Ken McCallum said in a rare public speech given on Tuesday.

McCallum called the increase in assassination attempts "staggering," saying that the number of state-threat investigations undertaken by the MI5 had risen by 48% in the past year.

He added that Russia and Iran often recruited #criminals, from international drug traffickers to "low-level crooks," to carry out attacks on their behalf.

https://www.euronews.com/2024/10/08/moscow-and-tehran-are-behind-spike-in-terror-plots-mi5-spy-chief-says

#StopRussianAggression #RussianTerroristState #HybridWar

kuchinster@rusx.org

‘Home Desk’: The Foreign Office’s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain

“to keep communist activities in this country under review and to recommend what counter-action could properly be taken”

Image/photoharry haller wrote the following post Wed, 28 Aug 2024 17:33:09 +0300

‘Home Desk’: The Foreign Office’s covert propaganda campaign inside Britain >

The Home Desk’s modus operandi was to collect information on “subversive” individuals and organisations from open and secret sources, ranging from newspaper clippings and books to MI5 moles and classified material.

It would then pass this information to trusted contacts in the British press, parliament, think tanks, universities, and other private networks in an effort to discredit the activities of “subversive” leftists in Britain.

The Home Desk was kept entirely hidden from the public, and its funding was not subject to parliamentary oversight. Outside of a small clique of high-ranking British ministers, diplomats, and intelligence agents, the Home Desk simply did not exist.

Its ultimate target was the British public. The recently declassified record allows us to peel back a layer of these secret operations. — https://www.declassifieduk.org/home-desk-the-foreign-offices-covert-propaganda-campaign-inside-britain/ Image/photo

#uk #britain #england #british #censorship #totalitarism #MI5 #psyops #propaganda #corruption #fraud #mindmanipulation #intelligence #anticommunism #mccarthyism #history

tpq1980@iviv.hu

Release the Epstein / #Maxwell pedophile #blackmail #honeypot intel agency scion control system client list now.

#Epstein didn't kill himself, he was snuffed out by private or intel agency assassins. Stop sacrificing our #children to protect powerful child #rapists.

Disclose who Epstein & Maxwell's clients & honeypot #victims are & bring them to #justice. No more child #rape control systems. No more child rape #trafficking. End this #horrific practice now.

#epsteinclientlist #epsteinmaxwell #honeypotblackmail #elitescions #uk #intelagencies #cia #fbi #nsa #mi6 #mi5 #gchq #mossad #puppeteers #puppetpoliticians #childtrafficking #childsacrifice #publishtheclientlist #endchildtrafficking #endchildrape #saveourchildren #usa #globalism #judeoangloamericanempire #crime

tpq1980@iviv.hu

The #BBC use lies by omission, framing, tone, music, colour cast & linguistic manipulation as part of a strategy of social engineering #propaganda.

The BBC work with #MI5 & #Tavistock to manipulate the #British population using applied #psychology informed by mass domestic #surveillance collected by #GCHQ on behalf of technocratic societal managers masquerading as #politicians & puppeteered by elite #scions.

#socialengineering #massmedia #uk #appliedpsychology #theelite #elites #neoliberalglobalism #neoliberalism #elitism #technocracy #technocrats #bbcnews #usa #un #globalistelite #disenfranchisement #manipulation #socialengineeringpropaganda #eu #behaviouralnudges #narratives #freespeech #freeinquiry #truth #classicalliberalism #criticaltheory #hegeliandialectics

tpq1980@iviv.hu
garryknight@diasp.org

‘Think Before You Link’: app launched to help social media users detect fake profiles | Cybercrime | The Guardian

A mobile phone app has been launched that will help social media users to detect fake profiles and speed up their removal.
The Think Before You Link app will help people to spot characteristics of fraudulent profiles used by spies and other malicious actors, according to the Cabinet Office and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure.

The app isn't called Think Before You Link. That's the name of the awareness campaign. The app is called CPNI, at least in the Apple App Store. But before you install it you should know a couple of things:

  1. The Centre for the Protection of National Infrastucture (CPNI) is answerable to MI5, the British Security Service.
  2. The app requires your name, email address, phone number, and your physical address.

#UK #technology #tech #security #privacy #hacking #malware #phishing #MI5 #CPNI

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/may/17/think-before-you-link-app-launched-to-help-social-media-users-detect-fake-profiles