New Statesman 1982

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Police chief was gunrunner’s official link

Duncan Campbell reveals high level connections of two ex-CIA terror salesman.

15 January, 1982

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British army prepares for chemical warfare

In the US, President Reagan is expected soon to authorise a new programme for nerve gas bombs and shells for use in Europe and elsewhere.

22 January, 1981

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TV journalist arrested under OSA

Journalist Stephen Scott - of London Weekend TV, who was arrested for seven hours on Tuesday for alleged Official Secrets Act offences.

26 January, 1981

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Petrol bombs legal

A Leeds shopkeeper who prepared a stock of petrol bomb components for use during the July riots has not been charged with any offence by police a month after a police raid.

26 January, 1981

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Green Berets' come to stay in UK

A new American base for 'unconventional warfare' troops has now come into operation it Machrihanish, on the Kintyre peninsula on the west coast of Scotland, as part of expanding
European activity by the United States 'Special Forces'.

12 February, 1981

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The disappearing bomb factory

A Leeds shopkeeper who prepared a stock of petrol bomb components for use during the July riots has not been charged with any offence by police a month after a police raid recovered evidence of the bomb preparations.

19 February, 1981

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Top cop in links probe

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir David' McNee received a few days ago the report of an investigation of allegations that one of his senior staff regularly met with a now-convicted gunrunner.

5 March, 1981

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The monster that just grows

In a discreet Mayfair building, MI5 is busy setting up a gigantic secret State databank with the facility to tap into our personal files in other government departments.

5 March, 1981

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Reagan’s hit-team comes to Britain

A secret conference to teach British industrialists, military figures and right-wing conservatives the election techniques of the American 'New Right' is to take place in London.

12 March, 1981

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Fleet street sings for its supper

The MoD is making a mighty effort to massage public opinion into accepting the Trident submarine missile system - at acost which not even its enthusiasts reckon to be less than £8 billion.

12 March, 1982

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The fruitcake right

Duncan Campbell looks at the
individuals behind next week's conference,  which is an attempt to set up a US-style 'New Right' in Britain.

12 March, 1982

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Trident: US insists that Britain buys blind

The recent decision by the MoD to confirm its purchase of the American Trident Missile system is being made in almost total ignorance of Trident's most vital features: whether it can resist Soviet defences.

26 March, 1982

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Nuclear train derailed

A goods train with a nuclear
waste transporter, said to be empty at the time, was last week derailed in Holbeck, a district of Leeds.

12 March, 1982

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Mellish on don’t vote labour row

Bob Mellish, the man who kept out Peter Tatchell, supports an anti-labour candidates in local elections.

26 April, 1982

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Secret deal for Sheerness

What price will Mrs Thatcher pay to ensure that a £40 million bunker is built with steel from a private strikebreaking firm?

30 April, 1982

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How we spy on Argentina

Britain's intelligence on the South Atlantic ought to be second to none - but how is it used?

30 April, 1982

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Leaky police discharge

Two police officers have been discharged from Thames Valley Police following an official investigation of the leakage of police computer information.

14 May, 1982

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Government inquiry into NS leak

A major security investigation has been launched to find the source of the New Statesman's revelations revealing how the government was influencing steel contracts for the new RAF war headquarters.

21 May, 1982

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Ships sail back from Hollywood

Britain's intelligence on the South Atlantic ought to be second to none - but how is it used?

28 May, 1982

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No lessons learnt

Despite the Falklands, international arms dealing will continue, and the South Atlantic will be a less safe
place. 

4 June, 1982

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After the war is over

Several initiatives to evacuate Islanders from the battle zone came to nothing. Duncan Campbell and Steve Walker ask whether the wishes of the Falklanders really count anymore.

11 june, 1982

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The mounting costs of military exploits

The costs of the Fauklands war have now amount to over £2.1 billion, primarily because of the major naval losses and the duration of  the conflict.

18 June, 1982

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Back in the bomb business

Duncan Campbell reports on a secret £250 million plan to rebuild the nuclear weapons factory tor the 21st century.

2 July , 1982

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The enemy at home

Duncan Campbell opens up government documents to discover when the first aim of war is to defeat the 'subversives' at home

2 July , 1982

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Armageddon postponed

An all-out nuclear battle between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, scheduled to start on 2 October, was postponed last week by the Home Office

23 July, 1982

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Secrecy for its own sake

In the light of the latest spy case -the arrest of Russian intelligence specialist, Geoffrey Prime -Duncan campbell looks back at GCHQ's lack of any accountability.

23 July, 1982

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Failed in wales

The Welsh radical monthly magazine. Rebecca has stopped publication after 10 years. Duncan Campbell on a muck-raking journal.

30 July, 1982

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The real mafia man

Bob Mellish has retired from the Labour Party amid a blaze of accusations of 'mafia tactics' and 'hit lists' levelled at the London and Bermondsey Labour Parties.

6 August, 1982

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Nuclear convoy

A heavily guarded RAF convoy crossed Britain at least twice during July, and was seen in Suffolk and photgraphed in Devon.

13 August, 1982

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Peace man deported

A year long Swedish security case came to an undignified end last week when Owen Wilkes, a researcher at the renowned Stockholm International Peace Research Institute arrived in New Zealand after being deported.

10 September, 1982

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Bad day at hard rock

In the first of three reports based on his forthcoming book, Duncan Campbell exposes the basis on which the government proposed to
carry out this year's civil defence exercise, code-named 'Hard Rock.'

17 September, 1982

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Operation Major may be 'a breach of law'

A Thames Valley police officer is to be investigated for alleged fabrication of evidence in connection with the force's well publicised 'Operation Major' against social security claimants.

24 September, 1982

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Planning for genocide

In a third report based on his forthcoming book, Duncan Campbell describes how the government underestimates the nuclear death toll.

1 October, 1982

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Forcing labour into the bunkers

The Home Office last week revealed its plans to fight back against Labour Councils and other authorities who have declared themselves 'nuclear-free'.

15 October, 1982

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Informers and new technology

Duncan Campbell previews a new book which looks at the changing ways of police information gathering - the result of which typically includes files on one-in-six adult urban males.

12 October, 1982

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Inside the Sigint empire

The revelation this week of the intense American concern about the extent of Soviet espionage in Britain has again focused attention on GCHQ -  the electronic espionage headquarters in Cheltenham.

29 October, 1982

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War, peace or truth games

The independent Broadcasting Authority says that there is 'some doubt' over whether or not it will allow Central TV to go ahead and transmit a new 90minute documentary by John Pilger on nuclear weapons.

29 October, 1982

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GCHQ's lost secrets

The electronic spy agency at the centre of the continuing security row, has covered up the loss of many top secret documents from an intelligence station specially built to spy on the Chinese space and missile programme.

5 November, 1982

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Unaccountable empire building

Duncan Campbell reveals for the first time the pyramid of official committees that 'control' Britain's spying activities.

19 November, 1982

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Export boom for arms in Indonesia

A new round of arms sales to Indonesia is planned by British government officials, according to a classified report obtained by the New Statesman.

12 Novemeber, 1982

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Friends and others

Duncan Campbell concludes his anatomy of Britain's secret services, following the Geoffrey Prime case

26 November, 1982

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Who is a threat to state secrecy?

A copy of the positive vetting form which is used to check people in sensitive security positions, has been obtained by the New  Statesman.

3 December, 1982

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Cabinet protects and revises secret civil defence plans

The Home Office has refused to reveal details of a secret plan which may turn the government's civil defence policy on its head.

10 December, 1982

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America's base motives

Duncan Campbell reports on plans to create a new American war headquarters at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire

17 December, 1982

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Greenham common

A new image of Greenham Common cruise base is the first picture to be published showing the construction of the massively reinforced nuclear shelters for cruise missiles.

31 December, 1982

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