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KICK-BACK INQUIRY SUPPRESSED

The Labour Party will reopen an investigation into Britain's largest arms export deal, a fifteen and a half billion pound [...]

PTA AGAINST THE MEDIA

An order made under the 1989 Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), has been seeking to force the American journalist Pierre [...]

SUPERGUN REPORT

On 16 March the all-party committee investigating British involvement in the Iraqi "supergun" program, published its report, Exports to Iraq: [...]

GEORGE NESS

Commander George Ness, currently in charge of the Metropolitan Police organized crime branch and international liaison unit, has been appointed [...]

The third International Training Equipment Conference (ITEC, fax 44 985 [...]

AIRPORT SECURITY FAILURE FOR BA

Aviation Defence, the private security subsidiary of British Airways (BA), has failed the first official test of its passenger safety [...]

MIDLAND BANK'S DEFENSE EXPERTS

Testimony given to the ongoing parliamentary inquiry into British involvement in breaking the embargo on military exports to Iraq have [...]

LEARNING CONTROLLED SKIDDING

Private security firms and anti-terrorist units have expressed interest in a British system for modifying a standard vehicle so it [...]

LORD JUSTICE LANE

On 26 April Lord Justice Lane, 73 years old, is to retire after eleven years of serving as Lord Chief [...]

This is the theme of the first "European Conference on [...]

RADAR TRANSPARENT FENCING AND OTHER DEVICES

A high-security Radar Transparent Fence (RTF) has been developed by the British company Hercules Security Fabrications Ltd. (Team Valley Trading [...]

MRS. RIMINGTON'S UNION FRIENDS

The Tory leader of the Commons, John MacGregor rejected a request for a statement by the Labour MP Tam Dalyell [...]

MI6, MOSSAD & DR. BULL'S DEATH

On 15 January Dr. Christopher Cowley, in testimony before the House of Commons Trade and Industry Committee, claimed that his [...]

PNCO'S NEW COMPUTER ON LINE

For the first time the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland has joined the British police computer network with [...]

SPY MERGER UNDER FEMALE CHIEFS?

The appointment of the first woman director of MI5 - and also the first public naming of MI5"s chief - [...]

TUNNEL SECURITY PROBLEMS

Despite the appointment last year of Hal Doyne Ditmass, the former MI5 expert on Movement Analysis (I.N. n. 142, 118 [...]

Shephard Conferences in England (tel. 44 628 604 311) is [...]

On 4 January the Ministry of Defence denied that military [...]