Schlagwort: Secret Service
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Lynn Walsh: BBC censored: No Need to know
[Militant No. 539, 13th February 1981, p. 5] Just occasionally the BBC’s programme-makers investigate a sensitive, secret aspect of the state power. But when they do, they are immediately censored by the powers that be! This is clear from the decision to drop the screening of a special inquiry into the work of the British…
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Lynn Walsh: Spycatcher, Thatcher and the State
[Militant International Review, No 36, Winter 1988, p. 28-35] Thatcher’s prolonged battle to suppress Spycatcher, the memoirs of former MI5 officer Peter Wright, have once again focussed attention on the role of the secret security and intelligence services. Enormous resources have been used to prevent Wright’s disclosures reaching a mass audience. At least £1 million…