New Statesman 1984
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Digging in against chemical warfareAn underground bunker in residential London is being extensively modernised to protect military personnel against chemical and biological attack as well as nuclear explosion. 6 January, 1984 |
Have nuke, will travelUS scientists and researchers have put together a unique catalogue which reveals for the first time the contents of the nuclear arsenals owned by the United States and its allies around 13 January, 1984 |
Astonishing mathematical inventionA north London inventor has 20 January, 1984 |
Home Office admits: Yes, it’s our hole againA part of a new system of civil defence bunkers, the Home Office is to construct three new bunkers for civil servants and other officials. 27 January, 1984 |
Unintelligent signallingIn every sense, the government's decision unilaterally to remove GCHQ employees' employment rights and try to bully them out of union membership resulted from American pressure. 3 February, 1984 |
Private ‘military -style force’ gets government backingA little-known 'military style force' has been given government backing to expand and 'legalise' its activities, according to government circulars obtained by the NS 10 February, 1984 |
Ungentlemanly spy at the TravellersA secret undercover recruiting operation for the British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) is being run 17 February, 1984 |
Bike bag secretsDuncan Campbell gives a personal account of events and police actions against him following a bicycle accident last Thursday - when officers confiscated his papers while he lay unconscious. 17 February, 1984 |
Extra securityGovernment decisions about nuclear matters have invariably been taken in circumstances of great secrecy. Military affairs are naturally often secret and decision-taking unaccountable to the public. 24 February, 1984 |
Security snoopers set up computer networkA national network of computers and access terminals has been set up in secret by MI5, the security service. 2 March, 1984 |
Contaminated submarine in Holy LochUS Navy officials have privately admitted that a nuclear missile submarine dangerously contaminated with radioactive waste entered the Holy Loch submarine base in Scotland late last month. 30 March, 1984 |
Over-armed and over hereAfter our government, the British people are the last to know the truth about the number of US bases in the UK, says Duncan Campbell, in the first of three extracts from his new book. 13 April, 1984 |
More US bases for BritainUS forces in Britain have expanded both their eavesdropping capacity and the links between GCHQ and its US counterpart, the National Security Agency. 27 April, 1984 |
Victims of the ‘dirty war’Kidnap plots, assassination, forgery, lethal incompetence, even 'political' psychiatry. A former Army intelligence office in Northern Ireland reveals the inside story of the Army's 'dirty tricks' department in Ulster. 4 May, 1984 |
Dirty war part II – Booby traps and bank raidsFormer army intelligence officer Fred Holroyd reveals to Duncan Campbell more of the inside story of British army 'dirty tricks' in Northern Ireland. 11 May, 1984 |
Dirty war part III – Terror tacticsDuncan Campbell with more revelations of 'dirty tricks' in Northern Ireland from Fred Holroyd, former British army intelligence officer. 18 May, 1984 |
The beeb and the bombDetailed government plans for control of the press and broadcasting services in a pre-war crisis have recently been spelt out by a Central Office of Information official. 8 June, 1984 |
GCHQ boosts arms salesAccording to staff from Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), Britain spies on other countries' communications to obtain information for private arms manufacturers. 22 June, 1984 |
Computers do not help crime detectionTwo internal Home Office reports obtained by the New Statesman say that it is impossible to show that police 'criminal intelligence' computer systems have any value in fighting crime. 29 June, 1984 |
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