New Statesman 1979

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Repressing mathematics

The US National Security Agency is pushing for new laws to restrict mathematical research being published freely around the world on the basis of 'national security.'

14 December, 1979

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'We've just been lucky'

Nuclear Installations Inspectorate perilously overstretched.

7 December, 1979

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A nuclear attack

New Anti-Nuclear Campaign set up to challenge nuclear power in Britain.

30 November, 1979

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Towards the Police State

What Tory freedom really means.

with Christopher Price

9 November, 1979

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Inside the 'Snuffbox'

MI5 is the mysterious 'Box 500,' the organisation feeding security information to the Immigration Service.

2 November, 1979

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Computer-run policing

A new plan for the Greater Manchester police force places so much emphasis on computer control that the police would plod to a standstill without it.

26 October, 1979

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DPP 1: NS 0

Attorney-General granted leave to bring contempt proceedings against the New Statesman.

19 October, 1979

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Helping tax dodgers

New government cuts could seriously affect the muscle in Inland Revenue's investigative arm.

19 October, 1979

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The lying syndrome

Russian nuclear disaster provided basis for much of the scientific research.

12 October, 1979

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In tune with apartheid

London's Capital Radio provided a model and co-operation for new South African station

12 October, 1979

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The Prague Syndrome

Czech nuclear accidents reveal contempt for safety.

5 October, 1979

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Fiddling with Juries

New revelations about state-sponsored jury vetting are just the latest in an ever-growing tapestry.

with Phil Jeffreys

28 September, 1979

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Sinking reputations

Norwegian trial exposes international tax-dodging.

with Blaine Stothard

21 September, 1979

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Here we go again

As the trial of six anarchists gets underway at the Old Bailey, the mood is very different than it was 15 months previous.

21 September, 1979

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Information Providers

The Post Office's new Prestel computer system is to be finally introduced.

By Peter Sonner & Duncan Campbell

14 September, 1979

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Sea-sick in Norway

How a British bank set up a tax avoidance empire

with Blaine Stothard

17 August, 1979

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Keeping tabs on everyone

Police 'local intelligence' files come to light for the first time.

10 August, 1979

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Hawkers by appointment

There is a future for even despot monarchs.

3 August, 1979

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Axes out at the Mirror

The failure of the Mirror's new printing system claims top-level scalp.

3 August, 1979

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Old soldiers never die

Private protection companies defy foreign policy by giving in and paying millions in bribery demands.

20 July, 1979

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The Army's Secret Opinion

The war in Northern Ireland, seen from Whitehall's operations rooms, is wholly different from its public image.

13 July, 1979

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The siren song of System X

One Union's gain may be another's loss.

8 June, 1979

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Political bias exposed in official statistics

A campaign to re-assess the political role of statistics is marked by the recent publication of Demystifying Social Statistics.

8 June, 1979

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New prison for immigrants

Home Office files reveal plans for £850,000 detention centre.

1 June, 1979

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Mirror's old technology

Mirror Group finally gives in and abandons its new printing operations.

1 June, 1979

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New ways for official secrecy

Magistrates have determined that some of the evidence confiscated from Campbell during the ABC Case is the property of the Post Office... and have handed it back.

1 June, 1979

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Mirror's costly failure

The Mirror's new printing system is continuing to cause a financial and logistical headache.

18 May, 1979

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CIA funds research by Eysenck

Files released by the Central Intelligence Agency have revealed British involvement in their massive 'mind control' programme.

11 May, 1979

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Press freedom on trial in Germany

German newspaper editor faces trial over two stories deemed to be 'insulting' to the Federal Republic.

11 May, 1979

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Journalist arrested

Following a trip to Northern Ireland where he interviewed members of the Provisional IRA, Time Out journalist, Ron McKay, has been arrested under the Prevention of Terrorism Act.

6 April, 1979

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Meanwhile, in Britain...

The Harrisburg incident is a discomforting reminder of the determination of the British nuclear industry to import the American Pressurised Water Reactor design to Britain.

6 April, 1979

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BP sets up Saudi secret police

A BP subsidiary has bribed its way into selling computers in Saudi Arabia, paying at least £5 million to win business from the Saudis' General Intelligence Department.

23 March, 1979

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Friendly penetrations

How the US infiltrated Italy's security services***

2 March, 1979

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Special relationships

The United States International Communication Agency declares the UKUSA communications relationship is without 'parallel.'

16 February, 1979

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Facts and figures of phone tapping

The British High Court is set to rule on whether phone tapping by the Police and British government has any legal authority.

9 February, 1979

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Threat of the electronic spies

Vast sums are swallowed on intelligence collection, yet the agencies systematically fail to foresee important crises - Iran being the major recent example.

2 February, 1979

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The new barbarians

CIA document details how the organisation wanted to extract poison from Nile crocodiles for assassination or amnesia inducing purposes.

2 February, 1979

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No figs for data protection

Despite the popularity of the Lindop report on Data Protection, the government continues to drag its feet on privacy and civil liberties legislation.

2 February, 1979

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Sam Silkin and the art of self defence

The upcoming Official Information Bill could strengthen protection for intelligence journalism, unless the Attorney General has his way.

26 January, 1979

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A new Norwegian 'resistance'

Norway's liberal credentials are being tested by a series of security trials.

26 January, 1979

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Juries under attack

The latest attack on British justice comes from the Association of Chief Police Officers, who are proposing 'jury vetting' as standard procedure.

19 January 1979

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