Ebook: Who's Watching You? Britain’s Security Services & the Official Secrets Act

Britain’s Security Services & the Official Secrets Act.

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"A probing account of the British security system.

The security services, invisible, unaccountable, surrounded by a mystique of dark glasses and turned-up collars, have grown steadily in size; so too has their expenditure on the most sophisticated techniques of mass surveillance.

Their net falls on trade unionists, students, anti-nuclear protesters, Welsh Nationalists, investigative journalists and a host of possible ‘subversives’; Crispin Aubrey stumbled into this web one dark and rainy night in 1977, was arrested by the Special Branch and charged under the Official Secrets Act. His subsequent trial, the ‘ABC trial’, attained a legal significance and had political repercussions far beyond the facts of the case."