peace researcher vol2 issue02 oct 1994

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"amily un" with the ir rce

at H AUO, SlmrvPloughshare and ABC proteted againt USAF Gaaxy and Starifter cargo pane on how athe "ntactic Feiva, Protesters were aed to eae because they spoied oppotunitie foFamiy Fun with the US Air Force Gaaxi es and Starif ter ere majo Ameicamiitary/inteigence bae in Auaa - Pine Gap and Nurungar Two iht pe week a e

round use Hwood Airpo i n Christchuch.

In i iu:Weste spooks demand access pivate communicatiosToops depart: agendas abounde Tged of Bosna Conntng the New d DisoreAress at Hawood - Hishma ay ProtestNav theatens to pull out o Antaic supMo spies in the skBlack Bih to closeWoodbue coverup made public

Pine Gap connues to gowFgates costs soar, value disintegatesLabour Part - still right behind WaihopaiSpook BitsAIO - litical paranoid and inessOua: CCJPD

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rutel tercept the hghet prrt trac waable t brea t cverat g the devce.Brth Telecm whch ha t apprve all pheequpmet bere t ld the UK, ted thatthe cdg tem be dwgraded Th wa ceart prtect the eavedrppg capablte GCQad the NSA p bae ru b the Amerca atMewth ll.

The Clt Admtrat ha attempted t mpe the ware dutr a "Clpper Chp a

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ppt t dgtall ecdd phe tem wart raed b te B whch argued t wuld t beable t rac drg dealer ad rgaed crme IAugut th ear tw Demcrat Cgreme

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the outskirs of Christchurch Vigils have also beenheld at Burnham The tradition of vigiling is to remainawake to danger while society slumbers The Bridgeof Remembrance is located close to King EdwardBarracks and is an emotionally charged place to standWe have met World War l l veterans, raw recruits soonto be deployed Bosnians, and many folks sceptical

of the governments motivations and the everchanging nature of the mandate

As wt all wars this deployment is decorated withhollow rhetoric I f the NZ Govenment as motivated

by an abhorrence of ethnic cleansing it would haverefused to co-operate with the ndonesian Govementbutchering Timorese these past twenty years. TheUN's track record in he Pesian Gulf, Somalia andCambodia its inactivity on Timor, has eposedits peacekeeping" as merely status quo keepingfor the major powers

Th e possibility of this initial NZ commitmentescalating is great indeed The doubtful honour ofhosting the worlds imperial navies is hardly worhthe price of another ew Zealand graveyard in Europe

Confronting the New Wrld Disorder

The following ecerpt from a World Council ofChurches report is cited by Ciaron and Moana as aprime statement of the perils that ace thse whobecome enmeshed in the Yugoslav disaster Becauseofits value in elucidatng the tangled politics of theBalkans the report has been quoted at length

"Any consideration of outside militaryinterention to stop the current war must take the

geographical context nto account. The rial interestsof Turkey Bulgaria Romania, Greece Russia and

other regional pOvers could trigger a wider war asthey did during te shng alliances at the tu ofthe century The looming conicts in Kosoo andMacedoni hold the greatest threat of the warspreading beyond the former Yugosla republcsIntensed persecution of the Albanian minori inKoso or the large and growing minority inMacedonia could lead to nterention by AlbaniaAlbania is militarily weak and emerging from achaotic transition from communism but could ndan ally in Turkey where the Motherland Party orecentl deceased strongman Turgut zal is pressing for a greater Turkish role as protector of BalkanMuslim groups such as the Bonians and AlbaniansTurk's long rialry with Greece also comes into

play Like Serbia, Greece has an interest in bockingMacedonias emergence as an independent nation -because of what that would imply for the borderingregion in northe Greece of the same name Greeceis alrady suspected of being a clandestine armsconduit o Serbia A cedonian conict couldescalae TurkishGreek tensions and lead to a breachwithin NAT since both states are members

7ere are elements in the militaries f other Easternurpean rthodox powers who faour assistance to

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the erbs especially Romania and Russia Foreigninteention against the Serbs would strengthen thean usian President Boris etsins ardlineoppositio Bulgaria howeer has long istorica tiesto Macedonia Although Bulgaria is rthoo andhas at times persecuted its own Turkish inori manysee the potential for a TurkishBulgaran allianceagainst Serbia Greece and possibly other rthodopowers mirroring the alliances of te econd BalnWar and Worl War ne Hunga which bordersthe Serbian proince of Vojodna with a large

Hungarian minority could also be drawn nto anallance against the Serbs

A wider Balkan war would hae seriou impliations for the Middle East and the ast unstable area of postSoiet Central Aia There is potential for theBakan wr to Turkeys west and the Kurdishinsurgency in Turkeys east to merge as alliancesdiide the region The war between the ormer Soietrepublics of Armenia and Azerbaan could e drawninto rial alliances gien Turkey's history ofpersecution against its own Armenian minoritystorical, ethnic and religious ties with Turkey aswell as fear of Russian nationalism could pull the oilrich republics of Kazakhstan Uzekistan andTurkmenistan into a Turkish aliance The notion of aBalkan conict pompting militarists to seize powerin Russia is especially chiling as it carries the threatof renewed tensions with the West and perhaps areturn to the nuclear brinkmanship of the old Warera

[rom The Tragedy of Bosnia: Confronting the New

World Disorder Edited by Erich Weingartner andEliabeth Salter Unit on Justice, Peace and Creation,World Council of Churches 194]

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Hiroshima Day Resistace to Starlier Flihts at

Christchurch Airport.Auu ourh aw

he ii o USAian Secreary oSae Winon ord ohe US Ar orce Baea Harewood. hia he irhihrankin rom a member o heUS Adminiraion ornearly en year

he police pu her in

a car and lammedhe door A momeno hih humourollowed when hecar window waimmediaey wounddown and Moana'head emered oconinue her addreo he crowd.

In repone o hivii and a acommemoraion oHirohima ay, onAuu ixh, MoanaCole and CiaronORelly, member oh e Chrichurh

ana and iarn are reme b te riurntabuar Te ign read Harewd A pit tpfr e war maine and Repen Hirima

he haner o he AirMobiliy Command(ormerly MiliaryAirli Command)wa paricularlyareed becaue o connecon whhe AMC Sarlierflih which ouchCaholic Worker

Renune nular weapn

Communiy enered he US Bae. he o peaceworker made heir way o he Air Mobiliy Commandhaner ha ervice Sarlier !ih o Auralia

In memory o he vicim o Hirohima heypraypained hadow o he vaoried vicim o henuclear explion. hey hun phooraph oHirohima and nuclear bla icim on he hanerhey hen knel in prayer holdin in RepenHirohima Renounce nuclear weapon andHarewood a pi op or he US war machine

iy riend rom he Chrichurch peace communiyahered a he ron ae in uppor a he pair were

dicoered by USA peronnel and he local policewere called Cairon and Moana were arreed and havebeen chared wih repa Moana coninued oaddre he crowd on he reaon or her acion a

down a Harewood en roue o Naional SecuriyAency and Cenral nellience Aency bae a PineGap and Nurrunar in ou-back Auralia. nellience

inormaion i hiped ou and upplie hipped in,on hee !ih

Moana and Ciaron ere bailed and appear in cour onOcober 18 heaholic Worker plan o coninuereular iil a Hareood approachin he rial daeor urher inormaion, phone 03338705

Ciaron and Moana erved hireen monh n Unedae prion or heir paricipaion in he ANZUSPlowhare diarmamamen acion o a B Bomber

in 199 . heir coeier in ha cae Bill rakelei wa alo arreed on hi Hirohima Day 199a he Whie Houe in Wahinon D he reianceconinue

SUPPOT MOANA COLE AND CIO O'LLYJOIN THE FOLLOING ACIVITIES:

unday Ocober 16: 00pm Proe US arlier ih a Chrichurch airpor aher a he oe pole.Sunday Ocober 16: 00pm Celebrae year o Riance a Harewood 8A Coerill S Addinon

Lih upper povided iv Muic BYOuday Ocober 18 9am March rom Bide o Remembrance o Diric Cour

ueday Ocober 8h lam rial a Chichurch Diric Court

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NAVY THREATES OUT OF

ANTACTI PPOTFormny yrs U Ny pilots h frrid scintistsnd thir uipmnt to nd from Antrctic nd onintrnl Antrctic lights Now th Ny is undrordrs om ongrss to rduc th siz of its forcsRthrthn rducing its mor wrlik oprtions thdmirls r trying to bndon th Antrctic logisticlsupport rol nd wnt th Ntionl cinc Foundtionto mk othr rrngmnts

AB docts th dmilitristion of Antrcticrsrch nd its oprtionl bs t rwood Airporth Ny proposls to withdrw if thy com tofruition would b significnt stp forwrd in

rducing militry inolmnt hy would h ky ffct lso in ling th much mor objctionblmilitry oprtions of th U Air Forc in thspotlight AB is currntly sking rspons fromth U uthoritis on th liklihood of nlwithdrw

A Ny pullout is by no mns gurntd hnt Appropritions ommitt hs llgd it wouldcrippl th NFs bility to continu its highulityrsrch progrmms NF blis it cn nd ciilin

contrctors to do most of th Nys work butscintists r prssing concrns bout losing thprsonnl trind to y th sn skiuippd 130crgo plns tht lnd on snowflds in th intrior

h U Dfns Dprtmnt contributs $U62million to N Fs currnt $U 19 million budgt forth Antrctic his coms o proiding 00 prsonfrc to hndl ground nd ir oprtions hiscontribution is lgcy from th old Wr no punintndd hn scintifc rsrch piggybckd onWsh ington s ntio it fition; Prsidnt il

cuti Ordrs spcid n cti nd inuntilprsnc in th rgion

AB nd its prdcssor th itiznsfor thDmilitristion of rwood hs consistntlytckd th militry componnt of Oprtion DpFrz nd th wy it hs srd s cor for Uglobl militry oprtions h public hs nprsudd tht ctiitis th hristchurch Airporr ll rltd to Antrctic rsrch whn prpondrnc of th flights r purly supplymissions for ky wrghting bss in Austrli

Nw Zlnd contributs $ million ch r to thAntrctic ctiitis hch tr Octobr 1994] hissmmr NZ Army nd Ny prsonnl will rmormnnts of th nd sttion long with thcontmintd soil tht is lgcy of rly omitoprtions in th Antrctic

hr r considrbl bnts for Nw Zlndrsfro Antrctic Rsrch om 1994 rsrch willconcntrt on ozon dpltion lls of worldwidpollution nd climt chng wnty si scinc

projcts r plnnd for th NZ Antrctic Progrmm

owr th issu of militry oprtions undr thcor of Dp Frz is sily sprtd fromAntrctic Rsrch issus nd must b gin sriousttntion If th U Ny dos discontinu its logisticsupport th othr ctiitis supportd by th UMilitry Bs t rwood nd to com undr longordu public scrutiny

Writtn by Wrrn homson h writrcknowldgs mtril which pprd in cinc24 Jun 1994 nd Nw cintist 20 August 1994

ME PIE I TE KYIn My of this yr nw gnrtion signls intllignc stllit ws lunchd h stllit costing bout $2billion is prt of th Mntor upgrding progrmm of th U Ntionl curity Agncy nd th NtionlRconnisnc Oc John Pik of th Fdrtion of Amricn cintists sys it is likly tht th rst stllit ofth sris wil b prkd or th Url mountins in Russi showing tht U monitoring of Russin communictionsis bing cclrtd not cut bck

onc hs bn prssd tht th Mntor progrmm will ntully gi th N A th bility to iolt th bnon sdropping on U domstic communictions From Jun nwslttr of t Austrlin AntiBss mpignolition]

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lak irch to lse!What's going n? Hve we wn?

n 99 h Unid Sa Navy annound i would

hu down i aromri obrvaory a Blak Birhin 995 Th announmn wa grd wih onyindiffrnby h ni Ba Movmn whih hadarlir pu onidrabl ffor ino rying o bringabou a hudown of h vy am failiy Shouldn'w rahr b prolaim ing a viory?

Th pa movmn poiion on Blak Birh ha bnimpl: ording o US Navy oial doumnBlak Birh i on of wo aion gahring arpoiion daa whih i vially ndd o improv hauray of ragi nular miil and inpaiular of Tridn miil. Nw alandr ingnral ar oppod o h vry xin of raginular arnal hrfor w hould no allow hiaion o opra

f h Navy i now going o lo down Blak Birhdo hi man ha all h doumnaion abouragi miil u wa wrong Or hav hinghangd

Th hor anwr o boh quion i Yah ... or

of. Th long anwr ar a bi mor ompliad

Bck Bich ws neve inene o bepemnen

ll h hnial doumnaion alway indiad haBlak Birh wa no going o b a prmanninallaion. Blak Birh i no fding on-lin ardaa ino h guidan ompur of miil iimply gahring daa whih will b ud o improvh guidan of fuur gnraion of miil ThUS Navy ha o gahr ar daa from boh hmiphr

for hi purpo n h 970 hy did i fromrgnina o g daa ud for h rn gnraionof Tridn miil. or variou hnial raonrgnia wa no paiulaly uiabl o h nxim h Navy wand o upgrad hir daa hydidd o do i from Nw aland a a br laiudwih br ar-gaing wahr. Thy gurd i wouldak hm n yar and if all had gon o hdulhy would ha bn fnihd hr abou a yar ago.Bu onruion of h inallaion wa dlaydvral yar in par by all h fu w wr making

abou i and hn hr wr unxpd hn ialproblm wih h lop hn a dlgaion ofaivi wa hown ovr h failiy in Dmbr

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by Owen Wikes

988 h aronomr aid hir n yar program had

only go undrway in 987 and i would b 997bfor hy nid. So Blak Birh will only bhuing down a oupl of yar bfor y hadinndd i o Thi i ill a or-of viory for hni-Ba Movmn

Bck Bich is ey h shu ownha our loal nwpapr havn old u i ha hUS Navy opraion ha alrady bn u bak.ording o h uually auhoriaiv joual of hmrian oiaion for h dvanmn ofSin Scienc, ( 0 January 99 p. 5 budgprur had vn hn ford h US o urail moof i aiviy a Blak Birh Th rani irllop ud for h upr-high aurayragially vial maurmn will rmain unil995 bu i will no ompl i plannd hdulTwo non-miliary proj whih wr par of BlakBirh paful-in ovr ory hav alradybn abanond T wr arh for planX on h dg of olar ym and a phoograhiurvy of ouhrn ky Th Navy ha alradydimanld h arograph whih had bn arrying

ou h proj

On raon why Blak Birh ha had i budg u iha h Navy an now g whavr ar daa i ndfor fr. Th Europan Spa gny now ha a vryfany alli alld Hiparo whih i mauringfar grar numbr of ar poiion o far morauray han Blak Birh an do.

Bck Bich my no hve been s vio missies s Nvy cime

Blak Birh i oprad by h US Naval Obrvaoryromri Diviion whih wa hadd by on rJam Hugh r Hugh wa h fron man for hopaion in N alan and did ndl inrviwin whih h laimd Blak Birh wa ju h goodol US Navy doing mor pafulin-for-hbn-of-all-mankind Bak hom in h US howvrh wa laiming ha aromry wa vial for miilauray and for all or of ohr ragi programinluding Sar ar (Rmmbr Sar ar?)

Thr wr wo main oaion on whih r Hughmad h laim Th r wa bak in 98 whnh Navy akd h US Congr o vo mony o

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build Black Birch Or Hughes got his money byclaiming that Black Birch was needed to obtainlocations of stars in the Southern Hemisphere withthe increased accuracy that is required for militarypurposes The scond occasion was in 1988 whenmeasurements at the nothern hemisphere equivalentof Black Birch in Washington DC were threatened

by nearby commercial building deelopments OrHughes successfully blocked the developments bytelling the D townplanners that US missiles wouldsufer a ten per cent loss of accuracy f the buildingswere built

There has always been the suspicion that Or Hughesmight have been eaggerating the strategic imporanceo his pet proect for all the usual sots of bureaucaticempirebuilding reasons Perhaps Dr Hughes didntreally gie a dmn about missile accuracy Maybe

he just liked measuring stars?

It started to sound fishy when Hipparcos startedsending down high quality data Then Or Hughes diedin 9 and almost immediately aerwards theNay's star-gazing budget as cu With Or Hughesout o te way ground-based astrmetry had lost tsmost effectie advocate t looks like Or Hughes hadbeen sort-of misleading both the US Congress andthe Washington DC townplanners and the NZ peacemoement was sort-of misled in the process

But it is only sot-o We should keep on opposingBlack Birch until it goes Trident missiles denitelyrely on stellar-inertial guidance - a combination ofstar (ie stelar) guidance and inertial gyrocopes &accelerometers guidance to oercme theuncerainties of position that come om beinglaunched om a totally submerged nuclear submarinewhich has only a rugh idea of where it is in the ocean>And n the wake of the START 11 round of nuclearmissile dismantling Trident is now relativelyspeaking a far more impotant component of the US

strategic arsenal than it used to be With stellarinetialaccuracy Trident is the most important contributor toUS capability fr launching a first strike All that haschanged is that the US military can now get all thestar positions it needs for free and has lost its ecusefor its own cosy little scientific sinecure in theSouthe Alps of New Zealand

All along the Anti Base moement has conceded thatBlak Bich data has some legitimate scientific uses>

We did not oppose these uses We simply demandedthat the US military stop funding his work and thenwe would see if the scientic uses were importantenough for the scientic community to continuefunding them My bet was that no uniersity wouldstep in and take oer Black Birch; and none has Theeis no scientific ustication for Black Birch The

several hundred tons of massive concrete pedestal orthe transit circle on Black Birch will eentuallybecome an archaeological monument to the rsstrikenuclear madness of the late Twenteth Centur

wohwhie cmpgnCampaigning against Black Birch was damned hardwork To star with it took years of ferreting throughreams of US ocial documentation to nd out whatits real function was> Peter Wills did sterling work inWashington digging up the townplanning sca

Secondly the issues were all mind-numbinglycomple ow do you go about eplaining to thepublic in simple language why a lonely astronomerstaying up all night on a stormblasted New Zealandmountain will make Trident missiles more accuratein the year 20 ? Writing a snappy news release aboutBlack Brch was a nightmare Thirdly Black Birchcould hardly have been better hidden away from publicand news media attention To hold a demo outsidethe installation took half a day to climb up and half aday to get down again with serious risk ofhypothermia along the way And there was no waythat the news media were going to climb the mountainto report on protest activities there so demos tendedto get ignored

Howeer all the efo put into exposing and opposingBlack Birh has not been wasted By pointing out thecontradictions between what Dr Hughes said inWashington DC and what he said in Wellington NZwe made life considerably more difcult for him andhis empire-building cronies We helped delay theprogram seeral years and we helpe to generate lots

of suspicion in both Wellington and Washington aboutNay truthfulness We have helped stop the US Navwasting US tapayers money on science which noone needs We ought to be awarded a Congressional medal for helping to prevent waste inthe US ederal Budge

And we have demonstrated once again that no foreigninstallation with the slightes relevance to nuclearwarfare is welcome in this country

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Spo BitsNEW ZEALAND

WANT TO WORK FOR THE GCSB?nformaion from he Uniersiy of Canerbury Careers isory Serice ells us ha he GoernmenCommunicaions Securiy ureau has acancies in Wellingon which woul sui a uniersiy grauae orneargrauae wih srong skills in moern languages Successful appoinees will join a small professionaleam inole in analyic an research work in areas of releance o ew ealans naional securiyTh erm moern languages' raises ineresing uesions abou who he GCS are lisening o Ifyou wan aob you will nee o emonsrae srenghs in general knowlege an curren affairs The agency reeals hai suppors an Eual Employmen Opporuniy policy an ffers a smokefree enironmen n ha is abouallhe public is eer likely o n ou abou hese spooks unless MPs sar oing heir job of properly superisinghe hings ha go on in his counry

AN EFFICIENT SIS?

ew ealans Securiy Inelligence Serice sae axpayers $8000 in he 99394 nancial year by comingin uner buge The serice spen $9987 million saing he counry from subersion an errorism anensuring ha unesirables on ge access o priilege goernmen informaion Their eing processesobiously o no coer he immigraion of Souh fricans wane for murering eir wies, or hose belongingo harline fascis organisaions

GF The las issue of Peace Researcher reiewe a bookwhich ha menione one Dai ofrey as a co

irecor of yn Securiy Serice an Englishpriae inesigaion firm use by riish InelligenceI was sae a Gofrey ha once operae in ewealan Seeral aler reaers remine us ha hisDai Gofrey cause a furore a ucklanUniersiy in 966 as a spy for he SIS

The sory base on an aricle by Hugh Price is haGofrey joine he SIS in 959 aer working in heriish Colonial Serice He ha risen o he rank ofPolice Superinenen in he Wes lnies In 96

Gofrey was pose o ucklan where he enrollea he uniersiy his sage he was a mileageperson wih a riish public school backgroun cerainly no a person o blen anonymously ino hebackgroun He recruie a leas one new agen anlaer amie wriing 25 o 30 repors oer his ime

He appears o hae ha a penchan for geing peopleino a car hen rying o pressure hem ino supplyinginformaion secreary of ucklan UniersiySuens ssociaion mae his aciiies public Some

of Gofrey s fellow poliical science suens wereupse an here were emonsraions on he campusEenually he Uiersiy Council wihrew him from

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Quesions were aske in Parliamen in response owhich he hen Prime Miniser Keih Holyoake, gaean assurance ha Gofrey s sole ask in he uniersiywas concerne wih he isi of wo Russian suens commission inesigaing he affair foun his wasno so an Holyoake ha o rerac saying hissaemen was mae in goo faih bu base onmisinformaion an ha Gofrey i hae oher SISuies wihin he uniersiy

ccoring o Hugh Price he subjecs of Gofreys

repors soune prey hin incluing askinguesions abou a saff member who ha a foreignwife an anoher saff member wo ha a foreignname Of 0 Gofrey repos were subjecs weremae public wo were on recruis o he SIS ananoher on approaching a young woman o ac as aninfilraor

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noher source has ol Peace Researcher ha in heearly eighies he SIS apparenly eoe some of is

ime o aking cuings from he Vicoria Uniersiypaper Salien an presumably from he oher suenpapers)

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fndMoreSpokBitsANY ANAONC O A

The CIA is convinced of the tuth of its much-criticised report alleging that Washingons new man in Haiti is

mentally unstable according to the New Yrk Times. The newspaper sys that Aristide has been spied on while ineile and that the National Security Agency secrtly apped his telephone calls.Some sources allege that it was an intelligence service antidrug unit formed and trained by the CIA that cosponsored the coup that overthrew Aristide he Agncy would certainly prefer a new president who followed the

tradition of US puppets being /ery or currently on the I angley payroll.

AN ANY COV-U ON XMNWhile a steady stream of repos conrm that people were injected with plutonium and maor United States

universities deliberately epsed thousands of subects to radiation for experimental purposes, the CIA continuesto deny knowledge of involvement in such events. ast yearthe US Depament of Energy Secretary lazel Oearyand the Govement Accounting Ofce provided informaton on numbers of secret experiments, and on clandestine

nuclear test plosions. The CIA notorious for all sorts of human eperiments instance giing people mindaltering drugs)_ claimed ary this year it could nd nly one refeence to human eperimentation with radiationA former CIA ocial has charged that many of the secret !es relating to such experiments may have been

destroyed in the seventies Sounds more plausible than he current claim "f noninvolvement. See Covert ActionQuaerly, Summr 1994 This edition also has an ecellent article on lngtrm US cove action in Italy Gladio:The Secret S War to Subve Italian Democracy']

NO CV CONUS Senatrs have accused the National Rconnaisance ce of building a huge 50 million headquaerscomple near Washington without telling Congress how big it would be or how much it would cost The NROmanages the satellite reconisance programmes for the US intelligence community collecting photographic andsignals intelligence It has a budget of well over $ billion per year and is a power cove player in the intelligencebureaucracy

M6 A CNC O KShortly bere his death in 993 (er head of Britain s MI6 Sir Dick White told a historin Never rget MI6does have a licence to kill' A necessary reminder about the nar ofcovert action organisations With a budgetof about $225 million and a new head - one David Spedding the part played by British agents in bending worldevents may not be insignicant Apparently nearly 0% of the organisation's resorces ar still commied to

activities related to ussia and about a uarter to the Midd le East The new statutary committee establshed by theIntelligence Services Bill will have no scrutiny of MI opetions In the past two years MI6 has made about 100ocers redundan, and it contnues to recrut predminanty fm Obridge. [Fm hch ress reprint of Observor

News Service article, April 1 94

B AANO ABOU NNONMAer more than a decade of legal battles the FBI has been rced to release details of its attempts to neutraliseJohn Lennon in the 970 and have him depoted Lennons claims of persecution at the time are borne out byrevelations that the Nixon White I louse instructed J Edgar Hoover to dig up as much di as possible on the rmerBeatle. The British Independent repots the FBI fought to prevent declassication of some fes because theydemonstrated the nakedly political motive r the harrassment of Lennon [Se Aicle in Chch Pess 1 September

994

AN O MUCANThe Pess 0 July, 1994 also reports that the FBI spied on composer eonard Besein r three decadesdocumenting his inks with groups listed as subvsive or communist ad keeping track of his supp for the civilrights and antiwar movements The Bureau began monitorin Bestin in the 1940 and continued to do so atleast into the 90s.

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LL, N N NL.Warren Thomson reviews 'Australias Spies and Their Secrets

Written by David McKnight, published by Alen and Unwin 1994.

If yu were invved in prgreive pliialrganiatin an d pre ativiy in the fiie ixtier evenie hi bk wi prvide an interetingnfirmain f al yu then hugh abuuraaian pk

MKnight ell the hiry f SIO (wih liereferene t her agenie) ine i eabihmenin 1949 up he mid evenie rm i earlieday SIO beame a veie fr pying n

miliant uninit ewinger nn nfrmit andher ubverive f a kind

teing exampe f the mentaity f he day i anffier' repr whih expree nern abupibe mmuni eaning f he ereary f akindergarten mmittee wh had indiated he udnt be bthered ee he Queen during her [ 195viit and hink it unneeary t ing Gd Save theQueen at funin

The inkage f nervative plitiian with SIO

whih MKnight' idy reearh unver a heavyhadw ver ree deade f he uraiandemrai pre we a erving he aue fthe Libera Pay, S O i hwn have had a eere reainhip wih he animmunit righ fhe Labr Pary The rganiain' xatin n theCmmuni Pary f uraia and eemingy ainabiity t neive that ixie r eventiemvement migh nt be frn fr Mw, are apungent indimen f their rganiatin and heirperain

Dmeialy event typia f he era were theextrardinarily far fehed rgue atin" againtLinel Murphy the utralian trney Genera andthe aempt by me SIO er dump heirwn diretr Per arbur and Prime MiniterGugh hiam

Murphy had arried ut an uimately ilfated raidn the St Kida Road headquarer f SIO earhfr file he believed had been kep frm him

rding t MKnigh grea piia t hehad divered that SIO wa imply inmpeent aarrying ut he job f guarding natina euriy frm

g

Craian bmb thrwer and wudbe guerila

uralia Spie' el u ha utie Hpe whnduted a majr enquiry fr he uralianGvernment aid SIO had let itelf be uedimprperly a the arm f a freign ineligene ervieHardliner had e link with the C Head fSain wh en aarmit repr bak ahingtnduring the Whilam era MKnight nude ha hepauibiity f CI inerventin in uralia frm 19

195 ivery high"

SIO nnein wih verea agenie learlyenuraged and enfred adheene the rightiparadigm f the day Whie me f the mre grlybeinable aiviie may have diappeared in thela deade r reader hud pnder wheherday agenie are even deeper entrenhed in hemire f UKUS dminaed ver plii

MKnigh indiae in me t brief ina mmen,tha SIO ha hanged nideraby day The wh

have had muh f their pat ritiim nrmed bythi bk may part mpany with he authr at hipint

uralia Spie' i nealy truured and anampihed writing ye mean he wealth f deaii n barrier t a reanaby infrmed ay reader Wemigh expet thi frm a writer wh eture injurnaim New Zeaand reader wil be eimpreed by the ak f index iing t page wherethi unry i mentined and tally unimpreed

by the referene he Seuriy Inteigene Serviea he Seret Inteigene Servie

Thi bk i eentia reading fr anyne wih anintere in he arane wrld f utraaian pk page dument hirty year f peratinimprper paranid and utimaely pinteHpefuy i wil inpire many t ak deep andmeaningful quetin abu wheher anyhing harealy hanged

(utraia Spie' i avaiable hrugh One Wrldk in ukland r write the Pubiher enand Unwin, x 8500 New Suh Wale uraia)

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Y: JDIn eptembe 4 Bas I Mkng he Catho cBhop of Chsthuch losed down the CathlcCommson fo Jte Peae d evelopment(CCID wh 1st annonng plans to eplace t wth a

new Commission to be piked imsf ad o wkunde a ne costtutio hh he h dan p I eapponted a monsignor to act s terim adm inaor This close follows a pate sla to that fher doeses ths oury and throghou thewld Chrh people ivolved i scal jstice dhuh hiearh pesned n Bips freqeldo not ee Cy'C 1 eye aot a \/hol rage o sseswithn Catholism ad the wder old Fo stane,t s no oiidece that wome om the ommis-sn wee among the n\ goup K"i Our Plaehh recetl rgnsed a march aw: fm the C-

thedal to smbolise the Chh's bg iswome

The nvoltay loure o CJP ed a emakable bod which lated 5 eas ad whch plaed apvotalhrughut that ime. It was uded by the lae Fathe John CU (e his obta in WcdK 68Otober . CAFCA has had an atve relaonshp wth the Commsso si . The relati-shp wth the AB has be even moe actve

Throughout he 8msso membes (Iagelwomen ompsed Plughshae whch montho ed held ekly igils at he S base t HaeoodDung one Saions o the Coss enactment the copshowed good old shiod sexm b gg staghtto the ne bearded patiach pesent (the eolelyonrelgous Bob Lnad ad asked hm o eplanwhat as gong o e couldn Plghshaes alsoampagned agant e Zealand militar spedngand against the ulfWar CPD was a uder membe of he Campag ) Peples oveegnt (to

whh both CAFCA and h ABC belog) ad wasatvely ivolved i t actvtes throughout

The Campaign for Peoples Sveeignt woe to heBhop epessg its grea appreatio of the rlehat the mmssion ha played in iteatioa national and local sse believ it ha be annvaluable rgasatio ad one ha ll e greatlymissed he ampign al ld the Bp itosideed hs csre CJP! -a most rrograestep an alled upon hi t ser! rcos it

Wee Iht holdi o bth.

JPD wa pefetly pepared o ommt money as

well as peple Acordgl t wa no stranger nves Throghout hs li ohn ow ws reglaly attacked by rectiona thol rgas has the Tl, fnding ART o Filipno groups

whh were ivaably poraed as Commusont) It pt mne ino AC atie mos notab the 190 uhig the Bse ou seed moneynohe Campaig fr Peoes veigt; a igcant dnao to one of T) o he PhppieamL oe the sace o o ar daed oer $200t he AABC Ogas o whih pdes Y' inome. So s lour l e missed avery pactl ese too

he Phlippes Soldrt Netwk of Aeaa(PA g dec o ohe ommisso ndeed

i w ssetal {ndd b Joh w ohn'spassonate atahmen o the Phlppnes daed baco hi t vsi hee 7 d peaked wih hrgasaio f the t ealand SoldaryCorene o he Phlppes, the rst f its knd nhe wod So th ha lws be a e loe elatiohp been he mms ad PSNA Fo along tme the Commsion ofce served a he ceof rstly the Philppies Soldaty Grop Oatahad laelv he a>naltwok

As a decidedly lapsed Proesat workng ih allthee Cathol of whm the female membe alseem to e called Ma has been a fascinatig andwothwhl eercise Wee had a lo of fun Andgven the hoie Id raher work alngde a m-mitted Cathol than a but o om0 Al tha zealad su aut gilt can have posve outlets Impleased to epot. he hrstchuch movemet as a"hole o a lge vte of ha o the Commssioad 11 single out some fhem Elen Shewan PatSmae Maie Vg MaY ake Mar Rell

Ma Mller I tld o) Cllee Coello JimCsede Thees pln of ohers that havetworked with persoall

Bt alhogh the Mkig ma hae inheried theEarh all s no lost. h rnw ok lives o nh Memorial us Plghshares has een en upb }g getion of loa Cahlic cisssuch Moan3 o me Cmmsson emb con o be t in a mrad f othe gopsFor exampl e Shvan s pbl spoespersonf(E Phlie olidr e boader mvemen the rhe he hl Chuh s ms deniel thepooe

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Pee ii from ll oer Aurli re eeed o onerge on nberr for he mss ions o be held fromThurdy Noember 0 (0 undy Deember Poible ie for demonsrion nd dire ion re lredybeig diused uo om New Zelnd d iin from New Zelnd would be welomed

By giing Noie o Qui he AAB sy h Ausrli n embrk on new mehod of nionl defeneinoling loweh iilin sregies, nd uor for oil juie nd enironmenlly usinble deelomenin he AiPif region

NEW ZEALAND ACTVSTS SHOUD START THNKNG NOW OF WAYS TO SUPPORT ORPARTCPATE N THS EVENT. CHRSTCHURCH ABC WOUD KE TO HEAR FROM ANYONE

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