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The Walls Have Ears
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation: German prisoners' cells were to be bugged and listeners installed behind the walls to record and transcribe their private conversations. This mission proved so effective that it would go on to be set up at three further sites-and provide the Allies with crucial insight into new technology being developed by the Nazis. In this astonishing history, Helen Fry uncovers the inner workings of the bugging operation. On arrival at stately-homes-turned-prisons like Trent Park, high-ranking German generals and commanders were given a \"phony\" interrogation, then treated as \"guests,\" wined and dined at exclusive clubs, and encouraged to talk. And so it was that the Allies got access to some of Hitler's most closely guarded secrets-and from those most entrusted to protect them.
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Britain's Blair in the Hot Seat
\"[A] woman named Claire Short [has] told the press that Britain had bugged the office of United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, probably the most important man in the U.N...She said the government set up bugs in Annan's office before the war with Iraq broke out, right around when the U.S. and Britain were both trying to get the U.N. Security Council to say they supported sending troops to Iraq.\" (Kidsnewsroom) Learn more about the alleged eavesdropping by British officials on Kofi Annan. Accusations against British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his response to the security leaks are detailed.
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Privacy and the Law
Privacy was of no importance in the last cent simply because business methods did not assail it, & there were no inventions the use of which interfered with it. Over 200 yrs ago the courts established the fundamental principle of the common law that nobody, whether an official of state or not, is empowered to enter upon property. A completely diff legal situation exists re the obtaining & spreading of verbal & pictorial information. The ways in which privacy is presently or potentially jeopardized, from telephone tapping to private & gov'al data storage, are examined; the present inadequacies of the law in combatting such abuses are exposed, & urgently needed measures to give legal protection to the individual in this area of civil rights are suggested. Nevertheless, the admissibility, in Britain, of evidence acquired through electronic surveillance is recommended. M. Duke.
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