1. Consider four generations of Signals Intelligence technology development and "cooperation" between the English speaking allies: 1943-63; 1963-1983; 1983-2003. Or, more simply put: from WWII; from the beginning of the 1960s; from the beginning of the 1980s; and from the beginning of the new millennium. The pivot points of each one of these three generational points are noted below including my experience in the early 1960s; John Hale's novel written and published in the first half of the 1980s; and the development of brain wave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology in the UK from 2001 to the present by US government agents.
I've been reading John Hale's The Whistleblower and noted some interesting statements made by characters in this novel which was first published over 20 years ago in 1984 by Jonathan Cape Ltd. It has also been made into a film (1986) with Michael Caine, James Fox, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud and Gordon Jackson among others (that's quite a cast) which I've seen a couple times over the years. It turns up on television from time to time so watch it if you can. I've wanted to read the book and am now finally doing so. Here are some interesting comments (remember this is fiction) from characters in the novel:
" 'You know that Signals Intelligence is heavily funded and partly run by the American National Security Agency, don't you?' " (p 62.)
" 'Oh I see,' flared Dodgson, 'it's a crime in the Soviet Union to use psychiatry as a state weapon but all right when people like you fix it up here.' . . .
" 'Psychiatry,' said the Interrogator, 'as no doubt you know, is a very loose discipline. Sometimes people do get shut up in those places by mistake and after a few years you can't distinguish the mistakes from the real cases . . .' " (p 69.)
" '. . . our secret world and the American secret world is on exactly the same tack as theirs -- supposedly in defence of the light. To understand the scale of what I'm saying you need to read what the American secret world has done so far in the way of secret wars, secret coups using secret fleets of aircraft and secret armies -- also murder, bribery, blackmail, burglary, drug trafficking across the world -- in particular, before Watergate blew it up in their faces, the extent to which they worked against their own people. All that is what I mean by lies.' " (p 83.)
" '. . . here we have had no Watergate. Here it would always be covered up. Have you ever known a judicial enquiry under one of our impeccable judges bring in a result contrary to the wishes of the government in power? The Official Secrets Act does the rest. Our secret world is beyond the law. . . . this place, GCHQ Cheltenham, is hugely funded by and totally integrated with the Americans. Can you believe what they do -- we do not?' " (p 83.)
John Hale, The Whistleblower, Penguin Books, London, 1987.
In 1962/63 I did final analysis and reporting at HQ USAF Security Service for 18 months before going to Trabzon, Turkey, for 12 months. My reports went to NSA and GCHQ along with others in similar sections. The civilian who ran our office had visited GCHQ and described his visit. GCHQ notified us that they would discontinue their analysis of the same areas and depend upon our reporting. Signals intelligence was and is a very expensive operation and had to be closely coordinated between members of the free world (especially between the US, UK, Canada and Australia) with respect to mission assignments and objectives during the Cold War.
There's another way of looking at the beginning of these 20-year periods. While they are fraught with many events before and after these, a few stand out as pivotal:
1941 Pearl Harbour: followed by the Battle of Midway and the war in the Pacific and Europe
1961 Berlin Wall: followed by the Cuban Missle Crisis, JFK's assassination and the Vietnam War
1981 ? 1982 Falkland Island invasion retaken by British; 1983 Grenada invaded; Sandanistas, etc
2001 9/11: followed by the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq then siginificant terrorist attacks
Duplication was and is expensive and senseless. Fortunately, the US had the money to finance this all important, objective world wide source of intelligence where others did not. NSA through its military service agency collection and processing arms (USAFSS, NSG, ASA) set up a worldwide network of intercept stations and air and sea platforms in many countries. These are now well known many of which are described on the Internet by the people who once served at these locations.
I believe that the abuses which emerged publicly toward the end of the 1970s were mostly associated with the CIA which was suitably reorganised or at least appeared to be so from the outside. Intercepting electromagnetic signals is not directly related to dirty tricks. However, as was recently exposed by Katharine Gun in the runup to the Iraqi invasion, there are abuses of signals intelligence. Once started it is difficult to curtail this excellent source of information. The NSA is forbidden from engaging in US domestic spying, but this too has been breached as was dramatically shown with respect to telephone network analysis and monitoring after 9/11. Earlier it read overseas telegrams delivered to the US as has been described by James Bamford in The Puzzle Palace.
I think the great problem which occurred in the intelligence world after the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the Soviet Union was the failure to pick up on terrorism as the real threat of the future to focus attention on this threat. Signals intelligence is ideally suited for such activity since it can gather information on a highly selective basis from a direct threat. It can also learn about those threats. This was the technology that was developed in the normal course of signals intelligence evolution, i.e., ECHELON. However, there is one other aspect of signals intelligence which I believe has not been noted but has been developed.
This is the process of intercepting electromagnetic radiations of small emissions which are not thought of as being capable of interception. They are and include any electromagnetic radiation surrounding any electronic device. Once this was known as being susceptible to interception, it was just a matter of being able to decode it. Telephone communication lines could be monitored from space satellites. Crypto gear could be monitored as well as computer parts most significantly a cathode ray tube, i.e., the monitor. This whole activity has become known as TEMPEST.
This started way back in the 1950s and was used as early as 1961 as described in James Bamford's Body of Secrets when the ground communications involving Yuri Gagarin's space flight were intercepted by satellite. During the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962, the signals intelligence ship Oxford tried to get close to Havana in order to pick up the electromagnetic radiation surrounding the encryption devices used to communicate with Moscow as is described by James Bamford in Body of Secrets also.
Due to my direct experience I believe that the brain wave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology I am subjected to and have been since February 2001 is simply part of this evolution of electromagnetic radiation interception which forms a part of signals intelligence. I believe that NSA has developed this for information purposes. However, it has gotten out into the hands of the rogues who are perverting its intelligence function into that of a multifaceted weapon especially after 9/11. But, it must be remembered that I was subjected to this seven months before 9/11 so that it was being developed on its own merits prior to that terror tragedy and in the hands of the rogues at that time who abused it in the extreme.
Now, a former DIRNSA has become CIA Director, and there is another person with NSA background who is at the top of the reorganised intelligence activity in the US. I believe that brain wave monitoring and feedback surveillance technology is at the foundation of all future intelligence activity and is being developed as such using people like me as non-consenting human guinea pigs for its R&D. It is most important for everyone to realise the existence of this intelligence activity and its feedback component so that it can be properly controlled in democratic societies. If this is not done in time, then those in power will be able to sustain that power at the expense of democracy.
I believe that John Hale has made some valid points in his novel The Whistleblower especially with regard to sovereignty of the UK vis-a-vis the US. However, at one point the joint effort and sharing of responsibilities with regard to signals intelligence made a lot of sense, but I think that has all changed. I believe that now the UK has sacrificed its sovereignty to the US which is manifested by the likes of Lt Harry Bird and others from the US operating as tyrants on UK soil completely independent of the law.
What I believe has happened is that a system of government in the UK that allowed a secret society to flourish as he notes has been subsumed by the US for its own purposes. The UK has become a laboratory for the development of this surveillance technology. Lt Harry Bird does exactly what he pleases, and no one stops him. Everything he does is an affront to and completely undermines all the institutions, standards and values of this democracy. What John Hale described in his book published in 1984 has now become a fact of life for the British public. No one can stop this now. It is too late because Tony Blair has been too willing during the past decade to allow the US to do whatever it wanted in the UK. There are many in the UK quite happy to go along with this secret state tyranny.
2. Today the four dead British soldiers were returned from Iraq after all were killed along with a civilian interpreter by a single roadside bomb there. The news reports although not officially confirmed indicate that this bomb was of the superior kind coming from Iran. There are also reports of Iranian support for the insurgency with money and perhaps personnel. This is a most important issue with respect to the insurgency actions in Iraq which are killing many people including US and UK military personnel.
My point is that the British government is doing the same thing in the UK with weapons, finance and personnel coming from the US to carry out surveillance technology attempted murder in London along with imprisonment, torture, surveillance technology R&D and medical experimentation all of which have lethal consequences from the use of this surveillance technology. The oft repeated objective by former US Marine Lt Harry Bird is to kill me. I have sustained serious personal injuries along with the physical torture which indicates to me that this surveillance technology can be used as an instant lethal weapon at any time.
I sent the following Email to BBC News24 this morning after I watched the coffins of these four British military personnel being off loaded from the C17 aircraft. It's a terrible thing to see, but it strikes me as extraordinary that the British government is carrying out a death squad activity against me at the same time as I watch these British military dead return home. How can the British government maintain any moral position against terrorism while it carries out the same terrorism itself indefinitely for many, many years against an innocent person in London?
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: It is with great sadness and feeling for those close to the soldiers now returning dead from Iraq
Date: Thursday 12 April 2007 11:09
From: Gary D Chance
To: news24@bbc.co.uk
But tell me: how is is possible for the British government to carry out a deliberate policy of the destruction of human life in London by the use of surveillance technology for eight years and eight months 24/7 involving scores of people?
How can the British government and everyone else condemn the source of the insurgency's weapons, personnel and money coming from Iran [into Iraq] while the British government carries out this deliberate policy of assassination in London against its own residents using weapons, financing and personnel supplied by a foreign power outside the UK?
And, for you, the BBC, to let this go unreported?
*****End of the Email*****
BBC News Thursday, 12 April 2007, 10:07 GMT 11:07 UK
Soldiers' bodies flown back to UK
 A sunset ceremony for the soldiers was held in Basra |
A private ceremony has been held to mark the repatriation of the bodies of four UK soldiers killed in Iraq.
A sunset ceremony was held at a base in Basra, southern Iraq, on Wednesday before their bodies were flown to RAF Lyneham, in Wiltshire.
Second Lt Joanna Yorke Dyer, 24, Cpl Kris O'Neill, 27, Pte Eleanor Dlugosz, 19, and Kingsman Adam James Smith, 19, were attacked on 5 April near Basra.
Their deaths marked the bloodiest day for UK troops in Iraq since November.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6547167.stm
BBC News Thursday, 5 April 2007, 21:37 GMT 22:37 UK
Four UK soldiers killed in Iraq
 |  The bomb targeted a UK patrol  |
Bomb aftermath Two women were among four British soldiers killed by a roadside bomb near Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.
A civilian translator was also killed in the bomb blast, which targeted a patrol in a Warrior armoured vehicle.
A fifth soldier was also "very seriously injured".
Tony Blair said it was too soon to link the attack to Iran, but he accused the country of "financing, arming and supporting terrorism in Iraq".
And he contrasted the soldiers' deaths with the safe return of the 15 British sailors and marines held captive in Iran.
The British army's spokesman in Iraq said there has been a "steady increase" in the number of attacks on UK troops.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6529081.stm
3. British troops attacked in Basra
BBC News Thursday, 12 April 2007, 11:06 GMT 12:06 UK
British troops kill Basra militia
 140 British soldiers have died in Iraq since the conflict began |
British forces have killed more than 10 Shia gunmen in an insurgent stronghold in Basra, southern Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The troops had entered the hostile Shia Flats area on Tuesday to search a house when they were attacked, said the MoD.
The soldiers held off gun and grenade attacks for more than two hours, before fighting their way back to base.
Lt Col Kevin Stratford-Wright, military spokesman in Basra, said "things turned nasty" very quickly.
"We get attacked on a regular basis, but this was certainly the biggest attack of its type for a while," he added.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6548059.stm
4. Iraqi Parliament bombed
BBC News Thursday, 12 April 2007, 12:50 GMT 13:50 UK
Explosion at Iraq parliament cafe
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An explosion has hit a cafeteria at the Iraqi parliament, killing at least two MPs and injuring at least 15 people, witnesses and security officials say.
Police said they believed a suicide bomber was involved, but that they were keeping an open mind about the cause.
The cafe, in Baghdad's highly fortified Green Zone, is for MPs and their staff, some of whom were having lunch there.
Earlier, a bomb on a bridge in Baghdad killed at least eight people and sent several cars into the River Tigris.
The bridge and the cafeteria attacks are major blows to the much trumpeted Baghdad security surge now in its third month, the BBC's Jim Muir in Baghdad says.
The security drive has brought down the rate of sectarian murders, but it has not stopped the bomb attacks.