New Statesman 1988
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Radio warsTwenty government inspectors have just spent £50,000 turning five British radio listeners into criminals for receiving non-government approved radio signals, and then talking about what they heard. 16 December, 1988 |
Bunker mentalityA meeting by government scientists at the Royal Statistical Society discussed the effectiveness of civil defence programme in the event of nuclear attacks. 25 November, 1988 |
Publishers hand over Wilson plot bookDavid Leigh's new book, The Wilson Plot, which documents the security services' obsession with the former Prime Minister, has been handed over to the D' Notice Committee. 4 November, 1988 |
The deadly risk of lead-free petrolNew petrochemical plants intended to improve city environments by producing 28 October, 1988 |
The runaroundThe Data Protection Act is virtually worthless. Duncan Campbell took four months and a stack of £10 notes to discover nothing he had not known. 21 October, 1988 |
The Secret Service uncheckedThe surveillance of Wilson and his friends, and the depth of the security service treachery directed against him, were a likely if not inevitable consequence of the security service's institutional independence and arrogance. 21 October, 1988 |
Reagan's secret computerRonald Reagan has been secretly programmed by a computer for the past eight years. It plots his astrological chart and his every move. He consulted it before major events like the signing of the INF treaty. 14 October, 1988 |
They've got it tapedIn the booming surveillance industry they spy on whom they wish, when they wish, protected by barriers of secrecy, fortified by billions of pounds worth of high, high technology. ECHELON is revealed! 12 August, 1988 |
Debate stifled on ZirconBBC's decision to broadcast the Secret Society episode, 'Zircon,' has been marred by allegations that the broadcaster attempted to influence the programme-makers to styfle the discussions. 30 September, 1988 |
Nuclear waste heads offshoreA map leaked to Lincolnshire anti-nuclear waste campaigners suggests that the ill-fated search for a British "intermediate level" nuclear waste dump is homing in on sandbanks in the Wash. 16 September, 1988 |
Filing CabinetThe banned Zircon programme in the series "Secret Society" will finally be shown by the BBC next month. Another in the series-about election dirty tricks-will not. 26 August, 1988 |
FO backs down on IRA-link smearsThe Foreign Office has admitted making-and been forced to correct-serious inaccuracies in a propaganda document issued through British embassies abroad and to sympathetic journalists in Britain. 1 July, 1988 |
Disinformation officerDuncan Campbell reviews 'Who Framed Colin Wallace?', Paul Foot's book about British army information officer's conviction for murder and links to Ulster while in Irelsnd in the early 70s. 21 July, 1988 |
The amazing AIDS scamAs if having Aids weren't enough, the big drugs companIes are moving in for a killing; scrambling to exploit the biggest pharmaceutical market in history: suspect drugs trials, Quack remedies, overpriced drugs, toxic "cures"... 24 June, 1988 |
Panic in the streetWhy did the SAS shoot down the IRA bombers? The answer, Duncan Campbell reveals, is that security officials in Gibraltar panicked when they lost track of a fourth terrorist. 17 June, 1988 |
The day that freedom diesThe Home Office scientists' responsible for a controversial report into the likely levels of destruction following a nuclear war, will finally face scientific community six years after publication. 13 May, 1988 |
While Rome burnsDuncan Campbell reviews The search for the virus by Steve Conner and Sharon King and MAN CRISIS: Heterosexual Behaviour in the Age of Aids by William Masters, Virginia Johnson and Robert Kolooney 25 March, 1988 |
Clause 28Finland has had laws against "encouraging homosexuality" for 17 years. But the censorship of arts and politics that is now in Finland's past, may be Britain's future. 25 March, 1988 |
An end to the silenceThis week sees the British publication of the first magnum opus on the history of Aids. Duncan Campbell describes the manifest harm, as well as the good, that the book will do to the effort of fighting Aids in Britain. 4 March, 1988 |
1,227 - and countingThe knife-edge politics of Aids in Britain and the continuing threat of political exploitation of the disease threatens to put lives at risk around the world for decades to come. 22 January, 1988 |
LettersA New Statesman reader airs her views on vivisection in the service of a cure for Aids. 24 June, 1988 |
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