New Statesman 1981

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Demand for probe into Holy Loch murk

Eighty-four MPs have called on the government to hold a full inquiry into the accident involving a Poseidon US nuclear missile at the Holy Loch Submarine base last month.

18 December, 1981

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Getting high on Poseidon

Discarded United States Navy documents show that on at least one occasion, controlled drugs have been brought into Britain by means of a nuclear submarine on 'deterrent patrol'.

4 December, 1981

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Accidents will happen

Duncan Campbell and Norman Soloman investigate a 'minor incident' which could have showered Clydeside with plutonium, and the evidence for the instability of nuclear deterrent technology

27 November, 1981

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Leaky computers store more records

Thames Valley police have received the go-ahead for the first £1million of a £4.5 million plan which could increase 100-fold the capacity of their computerised' intelligence system.

20 November, 1981

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Sultan's staff checked on police records

Sultan of Oman's security team were permitted access to police databases to vet employees. Duncan Campbell discovers further huge leaks from Thames Valley police files.

6 November, 1981

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Officer suspended after NS expose

A Thames Valley police officer passed confidential information to a private detective, but he is not the only one abusing the access to personal data.

30  October, 1981

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Sanitised history

Campbell reviews British Intelligence in the Second World War: Vol, 2. and MI5: British Security Services operations 1090-1945.

23 October, 1981

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Police secrets for sale

Personal details about cars and criminal records can be obtained illegally from the Police National Computer and other computers for between £4 and £15 a check.

23 October,1981

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Other side of the Mountie

The world's major security services have all been found guilty of serious malpractices. Except Britain's MI5, who have yet to ever face any public inquiry.

16 October, 1981

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War from the warrens

Duncan Campbell reveals how war-time Britain would be ruled and the network of secret underground bunkers built over the last 20 years that will protect 200,000 civil servants.

25 September, 1981

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Convoy caught in city

Ministry of Defense ships nuclear material through 'nuclear free zones.'

25 September, 1981

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NATO funds 'disarmament' body

A new Council for Arms Control is to be launched early in the autumn, as another campaigning body on nuclear weapons and disarmament issues.

28 August, 1981

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Reagan - 3 years late

This week's headlines may have said that President Reagan has decided to go ahead with the neutron bomb but the bomb has been in production for almost three years and stocks are almost certainly already in Europe.

14 August, 1981

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The propaganda war game

Duncan Campbell reveals how government is sponsoring the current attack on CND

7 August, 1981

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An arms dealing empire

Just before a group of squatters moved out of a block of houses close to London's Regent Park, they found a set of secret rooms worthy of any children's adventure story.

26 June, 1981

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Secret snooper sacked

A major British engineering company sent one of its sales engineers on a snooping mission to the Middle East. When the mission went wrong the engineer had to flee but his British employers have refused to give him back his job and he is now destitute.

3 July, 1981

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Slithering snakes

Duncan Campbell unearths a nest of ex-SAS bodyguards operating behind a major pop recording studio.

3 July, 1981

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Arms salesman did cook the books

International Military Services Ltd, the MoD's arms-sales company, has been censured by the Public Accounts Committee

26 June, 1981

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Work starts on cruise silos

Missiles are not blast-proof or mobile, reports Duncan Campbell.

5 June, 1981

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US builds WWIII hospital in britain

The United States Air Force is to construct a new, 1000-bed hospital and medical' facility, to be kept empty for wartime use only.

29 May, 1981

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Digging up the nuclear past

The production, storage and maintenance of nuclear weapons is one of the largest post-war industrial developments.

8 may, 1981

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The deterrent goes to war

Duncan Campbell reveals how Britain's bomb would be used over neutral Sweden and a NATO lie to justify cruise missile bases.

1 May, 1981

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Cruise will be scrapped if europe acts alone

The decision by NATO to modernise its nuclear forces with cruise and Pershing missiles is already a 'hostage' which will not survive if the belligerence of the Reagan government continues.

1 May, 1981

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Did the secret computer exist

Reports of a massive computer in Utster with files on mosi of the population may be a government inspired myth, according to official intelligence documents obtained and published in an Irish newspaper.

24 April, 1981

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Wings of the green parrot

Duncan Campbell gives a portrait gallery of British bomb-types and identifies the architecture of nuclear storage.

17 April, 1981

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Dangers of the nuclear convoys

Duncan Campbell reveals that 'The Bomb' is no single, isolated device: but a complex system of dangerous machinery constantly on the move through Britain's cities.

10 April, 1981

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British Teletap, Inc.

More than a million pounds a year pounds a year is spent on paying phone tappers by the British government, according to government and Post Office documents obtained this week by the New Statesman.

3 April, 1981

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Brit way of life – after the bomb

Details of the government's plans for the aftermath of nuclear war, complete with plans for the resurrection of the banking system and the 'summary execution' of unwilling workers have been obtained by the NS.

20 March, 1981

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Scotland’s Nuclear targets

The worst devastation in all of Britain, which Ministry of Defence planners assume will be the consequence of a Soviet nuclear attack, struck the Clyde estuary and Glasgow.

6 March, 1981

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Whitepaper whitewash

The government's much heralded new 'supervision' of telephone tapping has turned out to be a damp and flaccid squib.

6 March, 1981

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The FO and the eggheads

How Whitehall schemed to inveigle Michael Foot, Bertrand Russell and a host of prominent intellectuals into the official propaganda machine.

27 March, 1981

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Secrets that won’t be told

Duncan Campbell reports on the censored Panorama programme and the security service's men in the media and at the Daily Mirror.

20 feb, 1981

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What did a tory mp say

Just before the 1979 election, the late Airey Neave, MP, one of Mrs Thatcher's closest allies, discussed with former security-service  agents plans for an undercover 'army of resistance' in case of a Labour victory.

20 February, 1981

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Corrupt MoD land agent jailed

The British MoD's former Land Agent whose corrupt dealings were exposed in the New Statesman last year, has been convicted on 17 charges of deception, accepting bribes, and using documents with intent to deceive.

6 February, 1981

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The high school with the cruise missile

A third base for US nuclear cruise missiles is secretly being developed at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

23 January, 1981

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