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01 December 1997

Cloaks, daggers and Ms X appeal Jonathan Calvert & David Connett. Observer 26.1.97. This article investigates the tactics used by the McDonald's corporation against protesters based on evidence from the "McLibel" trial. It examines the case of a female private detective who was employed by the Kings Investigation Bureau to spy on the London Greenpeace environmental pressure group by McDonald's and questions the tactics used which included sleeping with one of its activists.

Intelligence and Security Committee Annual Report 1996. February 1997 Cm 3574 6.50 36 pages. This is the second annual report from the Committee set up in 1994 to oversee the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS or MI6 the external agency) the Security Service (MI5 internal) and Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). It is peppered with *** where text has not been included for security reasons some *** are even *** in the footnotes. One of the complaints the Committee looked into was that the US National Security Agency (NSA) listening station at Menwith Hill Yorkshire was "being used to circumvent British law" - the Committee finds "we received from the Agencies categorical assurances which we accepted that the stories are without foundation." MI6 and GCHQ are recognised as working on organised crime in addition to MI5 which has the formal role of working with the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS). So too is MI5's "organised crime" role working with "non- police service law enforcement agencies" and supporting "foreign security or intelligence service(s)".