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Peace Researcher

Journal of the Anti-Bases Campaign

(Christchurch, New Zealand)

Number 37, November 2008

Cover story: Cora Fabros Tour

Waihopai Domebusters: The police present their case (Bob Leonard)

ABC in Blenheim in solidarity with Domebusters (Murray Horton)

The Cora Fabros Speaking Tour of New Zealand (Bob Leonard)

Bases of Empire: The global spread of US military and intelligence bases (Cora Fabros)

Citizen’s Peace Watch Statement: On US military basing in Mindanao (Cora Fabros &

Virginia Suarez Pinlac)

Organiser’s Report (Murray Horton)

CAFCA/ABC Organiser Account 2007/08

Review: “Arsenal of Hypocrisy”, A film by Randy Atkins (Jeremy Agar)

Obituary: Betty Roberts (by Murray Horton)

Death in the Family: Brownie Dann

Number 36, August 2008

Cover story: Pop goes the Spybase

Pop goes the Spybase! Waihopai Domebusters severely embarrass the covert state

(Murray Horton)

Waihopai Protest 08 (Murray Horton)

Pine Gap Spybase “Invaders” acquitted: Huge defeat for the covert state (Murray Horton)

In the Dragon’s Lair (Herbert Docena)

West Papua: Have we forgotten the lessons of East Timor? (Maire Leadbeater)

Reviews: (by Bob Leonard and Jeremy Agar)

“America in Peril” by Bob Aldridge

“The Three Trillion Dollar War” by Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes

“Against Freedom: The War on Terrorism in everyday New Zealand life” by Valerie Morse

“Unconventional Warfare” a DVD

“The Peace Movement in Christchurch 1937-41, 1946-47: a memoir” by Will Foote

Obituaries: (by Murray Horton)

Philip Agee

Reg Duder

Number 35, December 2007

Cover story: “Terrorism Hysteria”

A bad case of “Terrorism” hysteria (Murray Horton)

At long bloody last: A happy ending to Ahmed Zaoui’s ordeal (Murray Horton)

Sleeping watchdog no problem to spies (Keith Locke)

The privatisation of spying, part 2 (Mark Eden)

Many US military flights now bypassing New Zealand (Bob Leonard)

What does Iran want nuclear weapons? (Joe Hendren)

An Acceptable Presence: The new US basing structure in the Philippines (Herbert Docena)

Reviews: (by Jeremy Agar and Bob Leonard)

“Counter-terrorism and human rights in New Zealand” by Alex Conte

“The plot to subvert Wartime New Zealand” by Hugh Price

“Ghost Plane” by Stephen Grey

Footnote: Insight into a sociopath

Owen Wilkes Christchurch Memorial (finally) opened (Murray Horton)

Obituary: Graeme White (by Murray Horton

Death in the Family: Ann Rosenberg 36

The case of professor Fred Hollows – hounded out of NZ by SIS (Hugh Price)

Number 34, July 2007

Cover Story: The costs of Waihopai’s spying

Waihopai 2007: Counting the costs of 20 years of spying (Murray Horton)

From “Secret Power” to “The Hollow Men” (Nicky Hager)

Another bloody terror submission [Terrorism Suppression Amendment Bill (2007)]

(Bob Leonard)

The Secret Policeman’s Ball, SIS turns 50 (Murray Horton)

Updates: (by Murray Horton)

Add Tonga to the growing list of NZ’z Pacific interventions

US building new secret spybase in Western Australia

Pine Gap protesters fined, but not jailed, in groundbreaking court case

Okinawa and Guam: US military pawns since WWII (Bob Leonard)

The US troops’ “unconventional” presence: are US Special Operations Forces

engaged in an “offensive war” in the Philippines? (Herbert Decena)

Reviews: (by Jeremy Agar)

“The Hollow Men” by Nicky Hager

“Negligent Neighbour” by Marie Leadbeater

“Strange Liberators” by Gregory Elich

Obituaries:

Stan Hemsley (by Murray Horton)

Wilton Willis (by Maire Leadbeater)

Phil Amos (by Murray Horton)

Deaths in the Family: Harry Dewes, Wolfgang Rosenberg

Waihopai display creates a stir (Murray Horton)

Number 33, November 2006

Cover Story: End the US war in Iraq, end the US warlinks

SIS: new boss, but same old story (Murray Horton)

US spooks exposed massively spying on their own people (Murray Horton)

Spies in the bank (Murray Horton)

The deputy sheriff’s deputy: New Zealand’s military foreign policy in Asia and the Pacific

(Murray Horton)

Harewood: US base a glaring contradiction to Christchurch The Peace City

(Murray Horton)

Anti-war protestors acquitted of disarming US plane in Ireland, former ABC activist

among them (Murray Horton)

Aussie activists occupy top secret Pine Gap US spy base: first to ever face draconian

charges (Murray Horton)

North Korea compounds Okinawa’s problems of US military occupation (Bob Leonard )

Organiser’s report (Murray Horton)

CAFCA/ABC Organiser Account 2005/06 (Bob Leonard)

Reviews: (by Jeremy Agar)

“Saving Trees, Stopping Wars” by Will Foote

“The Ultimate War Crime” by Robert Anderson

“The Dirty War” a documentary by Alan Carter

Combined review: (by Jeremy Agar)

“9/11 in Plane Sight” a documentary by William Lewis

“Let’s Roll 9/11” a documentary by Dylan Avery

“The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time” by Antonia Juhasz

“Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq” by Stephen Kinzer

“Future: Tense, the Coming World Order” by Gwynne Dyer

Obituary: Harold Evans (by Kate Dewes)

A criminal’s fond memories of a judge (Murray Horton)

Death in the Family: Barbara Hager (by Murray Horton)

A terrible irony (Murray Horton)

Wellington marches on Third Anniversary of Iraq Invasion (Kane O’Connell)

Number 32, March 2006

This issue dedicated to the late Rod Donald

Cover Story: Close the Spybases

Waihopai 2006: Longrunning campaign gets second wind (Murray Horton)

Illegal NSA spying on Americans exposed: historic Lange papers reveal who GCSB was

spying on 20 years ago (Murray Horton)

Japanese delegation visits Harewood and Waihopai with ABC (Bob Leonard)

Okinawans continue massive protests against US base (Bob Leonard)

The US Air Force at Christchurch Airport: latest flight data (Bob Leonard)

Campaigning to end the arms race at “Our Place” (Kane O’Connell)

Updates:

Sensational story of systematic SIS spying on Maori was a hoax (Murray Horton)

Israel apologises to NZ for bungled Mossad passports operation (Murray Horton)

Organiser’s report (Murray Horton)

CAFCA/ABC Organiser Account 2004/05 (Bob Leonard)

Reviews:

“Axis of Deceit” by Andrew Wilkie (by Bob Leonard)

Combined review: (by Jeremy Agar)

“Sedition: the suppression of dissent in World War II New Zealand” a film by Russell Campbell

“Tau Te Mauri” Breath of Peace” a film by Kathleen Gallagher

“Eyes of Fire” the last voyage of the Rainbow Warrior” by David Robie

“With Distance comes perspective: Essays on politics, security and international

affairs” by Paul Buchanan (reviewed by Jeremy Agar)

Obituaries:

Rod Donald (by Murray Horton)

David Lange (by Murray Horton)

Sue Taylor (by Kate Dewes)

Deaths in the Family: (by Murray Horton)

Rose Dann

Ralph Vincent

Jack Braithwaite

ANZ: Iraq profiteer (Murray Horton)

Number 31, October 2005

Special Issue dedicated to the late Owen Wilkes

Obituary of Owen Wilkes by Murray Horton

Christchurch Memorial Meeting for Owen (Murray Horton)

Owen – no ordinary man (by May Bass)

No-one could tell stories like my father (by Koa Wilkes)

Years ahead of his time (by Pete Lusk)

A peace researcher without peer (by Kate Dewes)

Not like anyone I’ve ever known (by Nils Petter Glidtisch)

He helped to end 470 years of foreign military bases in the Philippines

(by Roland Simbulan)

And old mate remembers: Norway and New Zealand (by Ross Brown)

Obituary: Ray Butterfield. Another death in the Peace Researcher family

(by Bob Leonard)

Number 30, March 2005

Cover Story: Spies and Spybases – pension them off and close them down

Tangimoana: the “forgotten” spybase (Nicky Hager)

Ahmed Zaoui: New Zealand’s very own political prisoner (David Small)

SIS up to its old tricks (Murray Horton)

Mossad spies imprisoned in New Zealand:

our passports valued for use by Israeli covert killers (Murray Horton)

Only empathy will clear the fog of Iraq (Joe Hendren)

Mercenaries: a peculiarly British disease (Murray Horton)

Okinawa: it is not only in Iraq that US military occupation faces massive resistance

(Bob Leonard)

Dubya steals two in a row – well done America (Bob Leonard)

Book and film reviews: (by Jeremy Agar)

“I almost forgot about the moon: the disinformation campaign against Ahmed Zaoui”

by Selwyn Manning, Yasmine Ryan and Katie Small

Global Intelligence: the World’s secret services today” by Paul Todd and Jonathan Bloch

“Fahrenheit 9/11” a film by Michael Moore

“Control Room” a film by Jehane Noujaim

Organiser’s report (Murray Horton)

Fuck Ronald Reagan (Bill Weinberg)

Reagan and Marcos: The gruesome twosome (Philippine Daily Enquirer editorial)

Why are NZ military exercises simulating Iraq? (Murray Horton)

Number 29, June 2004

Cover Story: Close the Waihopai Spybase! It deals NZ into America’s wars

Waihopai 2004: the protest continue, with some new twists (Bob Leonard)

GCSB wins Big Brother Award (Murray Horton)

In fond memory of Bob’s old van (Murray Horton)

Echelon spies on the World: Britain drops charge against GCHQ Whistelblower

(Murray Horton)

Israeli nuclear whistleblower free: Mordechai Vanunu unbowed, defiant (Murray Horton)

Ahmed Zaoui still imprisoned without charge (David Small)

The privatization of war (Murray Horton)

Are we seeing a popular revolution in Iraq? (Joe Hendren)

Christchurch firm profits from US War in Iraq (Murray Horton)

Number 28, December 2003

Cover Story: A Travesty of Justice – the case of Ahmed Zaoui

A Travesty of Justice – the case of Ahmed Zaoui (David Small)

Harewood protester convicted (Murray Horton) US Embassy complains, NZ Police jump (Bob Leonard)

Full speed ahead into the quagmire: NZ blunders in Iraq (Murray Horton)

Current US hegemony in Asia Pacific (Bobby Tuazon)

CAFCA/ABC Organiser’s report (Murray Horton)

Review: “Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph?” by Ralph Peters (Dennis Small)

Obituaries: Mick Connelly and Frank O’Flynn (by Murray Horton)

Death in the Family: Jill Morris (by Murray Horton)

Nuclear reactions (Bob Leonard)

Number 27, August 2003

Cover Story: Waihopai – New Zealand’s Biggest Contribution to America’s Wars

Waihopai 2003: War is good for business (Bob Leonard)

“Big Balls” A Big Success (Murray Horton)

Waihopai part of US network spying on UN (Murray Horton)

Militant protest at Pine Gap Warbase (Lindy Nolan and Murray Horton)

Terrorism Suppression Act passed (Murray Horton)

Telecommunications Interception Bill (Bob Leonard)

ABC Submission on Telecommunications Interception Bill

Counter-Terrorism Bill – “Without Lawful Authority” (Bob Leonard)

Australia: vicious new law turns ASIO into a secret police agency (Murray Horton)

Bali: a long history of terrorism

The invasion of Iraq – and how the media war was won and lost: half-truths and

Media spin. Whom do you believe? (David Robie)

Government still coy on UKUSA agreement (Murray Horton)

Debating the GCSB director (Murray Horton)

Who watches the watchers? The Intelligence and Security Committee;

The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security (Murray Horton)

Government approves new USAF communications facility in NZ (Murray Horton)

Air NZ bids for USAF maintenance contract (Murray Horton)

The War on Terror – out of sight but not out of mind (Murray Horton)

Obituaries:

“The Peacemaker” and Christian Pacifist Society (by Murray Horton)

Neil Cherry (by Murray Horton)

Death in the Family: Gwen Jones (by Murray Horton)

Bob Leonard retires as PR editor: but stays on as writer

Number 26, October 2002

Cover Story: Peace Researcher Analysis – The Terrorist War on Terror

The Terrorist “War on Terror” (Murray Horton)

Why a war on Iraq would be illegal under international law (Moana Cole)

Intelligence and terrorism bills – What’s happening? (Bob Leonard)

Death in the Family: Dorothy Small

An activist response to war (Murray Horton)

FBI chief in “sneak” visit to New Zealand (Bob Leonard)

“The second front in the War on Terror” US military back in Philippines with a vengeance

(Murray Horton)

Empty response to GCSB complaint (Bob Leonard)

Australia: DSD and East Timor; DSD and “Tampa”; New powers for ASIO

(Murray Horton)

Harewood military flights continue to decline (Bob Leonard)

Christchurch a “Peace City”? (Murray Horton)

Spooky Bits (Murray Horton): SIS advertising for spies; SIS Anti-terrorist hotline

still active; John Poindexter back at the top of Bush’s spy empire;

US too embarrassed to prosecute UK peace activist

Resistance to American bases on Okinawa: a source of information

Review: “Going Uphill Backwards” by Will Foote (Robyn Dann)

Number 25, March 2002

Special Issue: Ghosts of Genocide – The CIA, Suharto and Terrorist Culture

by Dennis Small

Number 24, December 2001

Cover Story: Mike Frost Speaking Tour – ABC hosts ex-SIGINT officer

Mike Frost – New Zealand speaking tour: 14-30 October 2001 (Bob Leonard)

Review: “Body of Secrets” by James Bamford (Nicky Hager)

New laws: a very nasty package deal ((Murray Horton)

ABC submission on GCSB Bill; ABC submission on Terrorism Suppression Bill

War without borders (Murray Horton)

Anti-War protest at Harewood (Bob Leonard)

US military flights decline at Christchurch Airport (Bob Leonard)

Our very own terrorist target in Christchurch (Bob Leonard)

Two old ABCers visit the land of the Great White Dome: Warren and Melanie Thomson

visit Menwith Hill (Warren Thomson)

Spooky Bits (Bob Leonard): NZ: Computer hacking; NZ: Dial a spy;

Australia: spies as police

Britain: MI5 must yield to “right to know”

Philippines back in bed with Uncle Sam (Murray Horton)

Okinawa – another rape case

Covert warrior comes out of the cold (Dennis Small)

CAFCA/ABC organiser’s report (Murray Horton)

Peace Researcher now on line (Murray Horton)

Thanks Greg – Farewell to Greg Jones (Murray Horton)

Ciaron O’Reilly – a flying visit from the Peace Warrior (Murray Horton)

Echelon – European Parliament Committee report (Murray Horton)

Number 23, June 2001

Cover Story: GCSB Bill: “Legitimising” an Outlaw Agency

Government brings in GCSB Bill, and a glossy propaganda booklet about why our spies are

good for us (Murray Horton)

Waihopai Protest 2001 – a celebration (Bob Leonard)

Swain Bill – new powers for electronic spying (Murray Horton)

ABC submission on the Crimes Amendment (No. 6) Bill (aka Swain Bill)

The Compleat Spy: Tradecraft (extract from book by Richard Tomlinson)

Review: “Spyworld” by Mike Frost (Bob Leonard)

Uncovering the West’s dirty work (Covert Action issue reviewed by Dennis Small)

Trotter trots out the rot – strange resurrection of the SIS break-in case (Murray Horton)

Obituaries: (by Murray Horton)

Elsie Locke; Sumner Peace Group

Philippines – US war games resume (Murray Horton)

Lost in space (Murray Horton)

Number 22, December 2000

Cover Story: Echelon: European Parliament Launches Inquiry

European Parliament Launches Inquiry (Murray Horton)

RIP – Privacy: New laws for cyberspace spying (Murray Horton)

Sissy Bits (Murray Horton): David Small’s court victory: update; David and Aziz speak at

ABC’s Waihopai fundraiser; SIS: Alliance wrings its hands; News Flash! SIS does

not consider Mike Moore to be a terrorist; government increases budget for SIS and

GCSB

Star Wars Downunder – Harewood a vital link (Murray Horton)

Spooky Bits (Murray Horton): David Shayler and the Gaddafi assassination plot;

The prosecution of Richard Tomlinson

Philippines – Bases toxic wastes victims sue US and Philippines;

Sweatshops and the VFA; CIA in the Philippines

Okinawa – The struggle continues to kick out US bases (Murray Horton)

The Clinton Visit and US flights at Harewood (Bob Leonard)

CAFCA/ABC Organiser’s Report (Murray Horton)

Obituaries: Mary McAlpine (by Bill Willmott); One World Books (by Keith Locke)

Video Review: “The WTO and the Global War System” (Dennis Small)

Book Review: “Bread and Water” by W.J. Foote (Greg Jones)

Former Canadian spy to tour NZ, Late 2001 – Appeal for funds

Bon Voyage Melanie Thomson

Number 21, June 2000

Cover Story: Waihopai 2000

David defeats Goliath (Murray Horton)

“Whatever happened to the serpent?” a poem by Margaret Bremner 10

Waihopai 2000 – seriously peaceful (Bob Leonard)

Echelon – US and Britain use it to spy on their allies (Murray Horton)

Intelligence and Security Committee – new members, same old story

How to complain about spying (Bob Leonard)

US Air Force continues to violate sovereignty of Aotearoa/New Zealand (Bob Leonard)

US military back in Philippines (Murray Horton)

Junk VFA – Kiwi joins protest (Philippines) (Nick McBride)

Obituary: Margaret Hales (by Murray Horton)

Robert Rodvik – unsung hero

Mercenaries get back into Sierra Leone - but we helped chase Sandline boss out of

Welsh university (Murray Horton)

Australian spies in sheep’s clothing I Kosovo

Cops finger US Secret Service as Chch banner thieves

Number 19/20, November/December 1999

Cover Story: Love ‘em and Leave ‘em – US Navy Legacy

Operation Deep Freeze – the US Navy’s hidden legacy (Tim Barnett)

A request to the United States Embassy from the Unacknowledged American Children Group

Aziz Choudry wins case against SIS (Murray Horton)

Waihopai – Australian documentary takes a new look at global spy network;

Blenheim paper changes its tune on Waihopai – GCSB not happy about it;

Echelon scandal reverberates around the world

Government refuses to abolish the Government Communications Security

Bureau (GCSB)(Bob Leonard)

UK spies hit for a (MI) 6

Philippines – Senate ratifies Visiting Forces Agreement with US government;

New Zealand keen to sell warplanes to Philippines

ABC pickets Clinton state dinner (Murray Horton)

Reviews:

“America’s Space Sentinels – DSP satellites and national security” by Jeffrey T. Richelson

(by Bob Leonard)

“Enemies within – Papua New Guinea, Australia, and the Sandline Crisis:

The Inside Story” by Mary Louise OCallaghan (by Murray Horton)

“The Power of People (how Nelson province became nuclear-free)” by W.J. Foote

(by Greg Jones)

Obituaries: Diana Ingram (by her Australian colleagues); Dulcie Stocker

(by Murray Horton); Miss M.K. Steven (by Murray Horton)

Out of a job – Auckland Unemployed Workers Rights Centre closes (Murray Horton)

Donations from John Curnow Trust

Organiser report (Murray Horton)

End Satellite Spying – ABC letter to Labour, Alliance and Green candidates

Number 18, May 1999

Cover Story: The SIS Cockup Patchup Bill

The SIS Cockup Patchup Bill (Murray Horton)

ABC’s submission on the Security Intelligence Service Amendment Act 1998

Secret European plan to tap all mobile phones – is NZ involved?

Is your computer being used to spy on you? Shipley will neither confirm nor deny

Intelligence agencies and the toothless Privacy Act (Bob Leonard)

The Navy Ski-Hercules squadron is gone (Bob Leonard)

New book lifts veil on Nurrungar – US spied on Australian anti-bases movement

Update from Britain (Melanie Thomson)

ABC submission to the Intelligence and Security Committee (Bob Leonard)

CIA briefs – unlaundered!: Committing genocide; Censorship; Killing the Kurds

Philippines – Toxic legacy from US bases (Murray Horton)

The dirty world of the SAS (Murray Horton)

Bits and pieces: Spy satellites; Systems failure – again; Fear of cyberterrorism

Remember the United States Information Agency?

Number 17, December 1998

Cover Story: The SIS in the dock

SIS brought to court in break-in case (Murray Horton)

APEC 99: preparing for the clampdown

GCSB Abolition Petition present at Waihopai

More on whistleblower Tomlinson

Waihopai Warren’s speaking tour

An intelligence test for MPs (Warren Thomson)

SISsy Bits

Review of the Privacy Act – yet another report looms

Intelligence and Security Committee – “Nothing to report”

Questions to Mrs Shipley about the GCSB and Waihopai (Bob Leonard)

Uncle Sam back in the Philippines

The Philippines Armed Forces

New Zealand’s military forces

Notes on military spending

SIS petition launched – time is short

Number 16, August 1998

Cover Story: The Arming of Asia

Inspector General whitewashes GCSB (Warren Thomson)

GCSB budget (box)

Waihopai admits MPs – but keeps its secrets

Canada needs more spies? (The Ottawa Citizen)

US military pollution in Canada (box)

British cut nuclear weapons

Canadian and German attitudes to nuclear weapons

The arms race in Asia – What is going on? (Warren Thomson)

New Zealand trains Indonesia’s military (Maire Leadbeater)

US government role in 1965 massacre (in Indonesia)

Britain’s nuclear shambles contaminates Scandinavia and the Arctic

The perversity of US weapons procurement

The US Central Intelligence Agency and the drugs trade (Bob Leonard)

Spooky Bits: Horror stories – new tech report on potential for political repression;

Dirty work in NSW; And dirtier work by Britain confirmed; Scientists and spooks come

together; Sinn Fein buggered; Scandinavian spookery widespread; US forces train

Indonesian killers; Australian intelligence shake-up; Brits stop revelations; Did the US

use nerve gas on defectors in Laos? Tomlinson persecuted by NZ government;

Canadian agents stuff up; No laurels for Loral

Military gullibility; This is the good news (box)

Number 15, June 1998

Cover Story: US Navy departs Deep Freeze – US Air Force takes over

ABC bids a low-key farewell to the US Navy

“Echelon” – the word spreads in Europe

Top Security – Maxwell Smart style

Waihopai – questions asked in parliament

Boost to Waihopai’s spying capability well underway

Kiwi MI6 agent gaoled (jailed) for threatened whistleblowing

SIS comes out of the closet – not!

Philippines – Is Uncle Sam coming I through the back door? –

Cleaning up the mess; New US/Philippines Visiting Forces Agreement

New US base in Mindinao? (Murray Horton)

Okinawa: the struggle continues (Murray Horton)

Spooky Bits: Korean spooks manipulate electoral politics; Burma’s spies get priority;

History revisited?; Stasi history revisited; Palestinian security abuses reported

Miitary madness- hackers make a big hit but little change for the New Millenium

“New” US strategy revealed (Clinton Directive 60) (Warren Thomson)

Review: “Quest for Peace: confession, lies and heroes” by Will Foote (by Greg Jones)

CIA File: Former officer reveals CIA communications intercepts; CIA and the drug trade;

Campaign against Phillip Agee continues; Bay of Pigs – CIA debacle; CIA versus

Iran in Central Asia

Obituary: Jacqui Barrington (by Stephanie Mills)

Mike Moore, the New Zealand constitution, and Waihopai (Bob Leonard)

Back to the Future – French army carrier pigeons (box)

Number 14, December 1997

Cover Story: Waihopai to Expand – Second Dome and spying on International

Phone Calls

National petition to abolish the GCSB launched Blenheim

Waihopai to be expanded (Bob Leonard)

Intelligence agencies and the operation of the Privacy Act

SISsy Bits: (Murray Horton) Fightback against SIS break-in and official cover-up;

Aziz Choudry to sue SIS – fighting fund launches

Want a job? (Security coordinator for APEC 99)

Where do old spies go?

Menwith Hill – the battle continues (Murray Horton)

Australian intelligence – cock ups and deceit (Murray Horton): ONA (Office of National

Assessments; ASIS (Australian Secret Intelligence Service; NIO (National

Intelligence Organisation; Aussie cops in on spy act as well

CIA File – 50 years of scandals and bungling (Murray Horton): Iraq: coups and whistleblowers;

US intelligence budget revealed for first time; Democrats, dollars and deception

The FBI gets greater phonetapping powers – phone companies resist

Notorious COINTELPRO still alilve in 1990s

Canada’s spies given sweeping phonetapping powers

British spies still protecgted by official secrecy

Harewood – Kiwi workers lose jobs with US Navy departure

US Air Force shows who’s boss (box)

Update on US military and Antarctic flights at Christchurch Airport (Bob Leonard)

Defence spending up, but extra ANZAC frigates dead in the water

SAS (Special Air Service)

And now for something completely different…measuring IQ (box)

Organiser’s Report (Murray Horton)

New book: “Protest at Morurua” – First hand accounts from the New Zealand-based flotilla

Number 13, August 1997

Cover Story: Top GCSB Officials Observe Waihopai 20 Trial

The Waihopai 20 have their day in court (Warren Thomson and Murray Horton)

Spies “bug” Waihopai 20 trial (Bob Leonard)

Black Birch Naval Observatory – what replaced it? (Bob Leonard)

More Moor hyperbole on Harewood – police question ABC (Murray Horton)

Government to put the “NZ” back into ANZUS (Murray Horton)

SISsy Bits: (Murray Horton): Inspector-General whitewashes SIS break-in of Christchurch

activist’s home;”Sunday Star Times” expose on SIS; From cold warfare to social

welfare; Looking for something to do???; New spy committee named

Protest against Tandem Thrust, a few can do so much… (Denis Doherty)

Asia-Pacific bases round-up (Murray Horton)

The Dirty Dogs of War – Privatised killers: mercenaries, miners, and money (Murray Horton)

Chernobyl (nuclear) explosion confirmed in US (Bob Leonard)

The cost of free trade? $28 million and an armed invasion (Murray Horton)

Mobutu – “He may be a son of a bitch but he’s hour son of a bitch” (Murray Horton)

Saddam – once “our son of a bitch”, humiliates CIA

“The trouble with the CIA”

Campaign to free Mordechai Vanunu – Sam Day visits Christchurch (Bob Leonard)

Waihopai Warren goes (North) West

Thanks, Marty

Number 12, March 1997

Cover Story: MPs Visit Waihopai during National Protest

Questioning the GCSB Director (Bob Leonard)

GCSB bullies business

The Communications Security Establishment: the GCSB’s sister agency (Warren Thomson)

Private bill aimed at ISA acts (Rod Donald) (box)

Disturbing new military links with Philippines (Murray Horton)

US military goes offshore in Okinawa – just

More flak for US in Okinawa (use of DU) (box)

Finally – Waihpai becomes an issue!

“Secret Power” – 20/20 (box)

Waihopai 1997 – A photo essay

Menwith Hill (Duncan Campbell)

Duncan Campbell visit

US-Mexico: the “drug war” against the Zapatistas

CIA File: Traveling in style; Another mole at Langley; CIA part in Afghanistan shambles;

Another new boss at Langley; Keeping the past hidden; High-tech and

low competence

Spooky Bits: Where have we heard this before? And now a mole in the FBI; More on

disinformation; Dirty tricks by MI5; More on dirty tricks

Number 11, December 1996

Cover Story: Spying by the GCSB and Waihopai – above, beyond, outside the law?

Is the GCSB a lawless agency? (Bob Leonard)

Okinawa – Historic referendum votes for Bases Out but leases renewed

Philippines – Former US bases still contaminated by toxic wastes

NZ at secret anti-terrorism conference in the Philippines

SIS Break-in: Ombudsman (again) backs ban on Intelligence agency details; SIS director shy

Specious reasoning in SIS refusals – just who is paranoid here?

Woman offered cash to spy on peace group

Police spy at Menwith (box)

The CTB – push for ratification; Non-proliferation treat conference – seizing the opportunity;

Depleted uranium (DU) weapons – expose them, oppose them! (Felicity Hill)

US magazine exposes CIA assassinations, plots, coups and disinformation (Larry Ross)

“Unbreakable” code cracked (box)

CIA file: CIA debacle abandons allies to death; Central stupidity agency; Crack agency;

Did Clinton work for the CIA?; Iran blamed again; Ex-spooks allege cover-up;

CIA health check; CIA “kills” but does not “assassinate”; More on the unholy alliance;

Don’t expect any changes; Another CIA mole (box)

Spooky Bits: US aid kills; Criminals’ hi-tech intelligence; Sth African hitman killed

Swedish PM; Another Lockerbie theory – it was South Africa; Huge increase in NSW

Bugging; Spook takes her place in NSW parliament; Sweden versus Russia; Korea:

North Versus South; It was the Russians!; KGB disinformation, The more things change;

Unarmed IRA suspect killed; Rance saved Britain in the Falklands War; US Officer

found dead

The risks of protesting “The Bomb”

Have you heard the one about….? (box)

The US Navy gradually departs Deep Freeze

Number 10, September 1996

Cover Stories: Break-in; The GCSB Uncovered

“Secret Power” a new book by Nicky Hager

Book review: “Secret Power”, reviewed by Murray Horton

“Bombs”; SIS Break-in; Police raids – a sinister sequence of events in Christchurch

(Murray Horton)

The Security Intelligence Service – the background (Warren Thomson)

Surprise verdict clears peace women

Australia’s military alliance with the US

Military hi-tech (Warren Thomson)

Security in cyberspace

Crack and the CIA: America’s secret war (Peter Montague)

Spooky Bits: Lockerbie: more twists; US propaganda coup; Orwell’s secret past;

Shreds of evidence; Spook City tours; Political use of FBI files; FBI overseas expansion;

Torture in Israel – the other side; Gordievsky finds his slot

Australian government backs space launch plan

Number 9, June 1996

Cover Story: Operation Deep Freeze in ’98 – US Navy Out, US Air Force In

US Navy to depart Operation Deep Freeze

Black Birch Observatory update

Big expansion at Pine Gap (Hannah Middleton)

The growth In New Zealand defence spending (Warren Thomson)

Some significant items of defence expenditure

New rocket launch site in Darwin? (Hannah Middleton)

Australia’s Patriot missile plan to fuel arms race (Dee Margetts, Green senator for WA)

Spy bases in Australia – What’s happening?

Public outrage over Trust Bank sale – ABC does its bit (Murray Horton)

NZ at secret anti-terrorism conference in Philippines

Okinawa – US to close some bases but struggle continues

Obituary: Arthur Reddish (by Murray Horton and Owen Wilkes)

Waihopai defendants have their day of Grace (Warren Thomson)

National Peace Workshops 1996 (and a trip to Tangimoana too!) (Melanie Thomson)

Spy bill passed (Intelligence and Security Agencies Bil)

French military colonialism – The NZ connection (Joe Buchanan)

Is China a threat? (Warren Thomson)

Hacking into the Pentagon (box)

Aussie spies get more stick

CIA File: Lockerbie – when will the truth be told?; The CIA and Middle East; CIA’s support

for terrorism; Colby’s ignominious demise; And the rise of the current incumbent;

CIA wants quieter call on Castro; Women in the CIA; New insights on the CIA

Spooky Bits: Brits still active in Moscow; Other European espionage; Classic disinformation;

More secret material available in Britain; German spy chief resigns; Gung- ho new

Israeli president; Footnote to SIS history; NSA mole arrested

Nuclear explosion caused the Chernobyl disaster (Bob Leonard)

Number 8, March 1996

Cover Story: Waihopai, January 1996

New Zealand spies

ABC members testify befoe select committee on the Intelligence Bill (Bob Leonard)

Hearings on the bill – latest news

Submission to the Committee on the Intelligence and Security Agencies Bill, February 1996

(Warren Thomson)

Submission by Anthony Lealand, Firework Professionals Limited

“Hippie-type individuals” arrested at Waihopai (Melanie Thomson)

Cartoon from Marlborough Express

Book Review: “Seeing Red – Undercover in the 1950s New Zealand” by George Fraser

(by Murray Horton)

Protestors damage UK bombers (box)

Anti-nuclear activist attacked again

UK ministry sued in deformity test case – MI5 “waging war of harassment”

(Bernard Phelan - Irish Star)

The fate of Black Birch Naval Observatory (Bob Leonard)

Canberra change will affect OZ defence (Warren Thomson)

CIA File: Christchurch was home for ex-CIA officer; CIA reluctant to take on Iran?;

More dodgy deals with the Vatican?; CIA and Arafat – What’s going on?

Internet has international intelligence value for US military

Spook Bits: More on French phone taps; NRO chiefs sacked; The Fifth Man?;

Other KGB news; Counterfeit; South African military’s war on elephants; South African

Security’s war on the ANC; And South African intelligence under suspicion;

Israeli items; Secret documents sold at auction

US Defense budget set (box)

Uranium and thorium mining could happen in Aotearoa

Okinawa rapists sentenced

Military intelligence – American style (AP network)

Edward Teller at his finest (New Scientist)

Number 7, December 1995

Cover Story: 40 years of US Military Occupation at Operation Deep Freeze

The rape of Okinawa – Massive anti-bases protests (Murray Horton)

For Queen and country – some things rotten in the state of Britain

Update on US military flights at Christchurch Airport (Bob Leonard)

ABC visits Harewood Open Day (Greg Jones)

Deep freeze for US base staff (box)

Book Review: “The Paradise Conspiracy” by Ian Wishart (Nuclear Free Kiwis)

The SAS – How little we know (Warren Thomson)

Champion Security – at world record prices

CIA File: CIA reports questionable; CIA losing defense?; Ivy League lawyer fights the CIA;

Honduras legacy; CIA spies on trade negotiations; and sexist too; Langley looks

to ESP for help

New Zealand, home of the world’s first anti-nuclear protest only days after Hiroshima

(Glyn Strange)

For Queen and country – more things rotten in the state of Britain: Skeletons from

Westminster’s cupboard; Nuclear reactor close to meltdown; Nuclear submarine

Leak (1)

Spooky Bits: Rabin’s killer worked for intelligence; Frenmch navy secrets hacked;

US keeps intercepts secret; Right mureders ASIO spooks?; Honduran intelligence

officials disappear; South African spy chief shot; Guilt and anxie4ty for former

Stasi officers; Undercover guilt; US denies Whitlam intervention

Partial ban on laser weapons (box)

Number 6, October 1995

Cover Story: Revelations on the GCSB – the cover is partially lifted on NZ’s secretive

electronic spying agency

New Zealand’s electronic spies: some of the secrets come out (Nicky Hager)

GCSB plans public relations stunt

Job vacancies: the GCSB wants you!

GCSB advertisement (box)

GCSB job opportunities (continued in boxes)

The French testing programme (Peter Wills)

New Zealand military cooperation with Indonesia (Joe Buchanan)

Exercise Elang Sebrang (box)

The Mutual Assistance Programme

Waihopai case – appeal for funds (box)

NZ and the atom bomb during and after World War Two (Owen Wilkes)

USAF detachment detached from Harewood

US Embassy censored flight data sheets

US Navy Hercules flight data now available (box)

40 years of Operation Deep Freeze – 22 years of protest agains the US military at

Christchurch International Airport – a photo essay

Different perspective on the Balkans quagmire (Robert Rodvik) (box)

CIA File: Japan NOCs CIA; CIT hitman; New CIA director; Blame the president – not the CIA;

But incompetent nevertheless; Will the Pentagon take over?

Spooky Bits: Burglars or buggers?; NSA accused; Different spooks – same cover-ups;

More German spies; Spies versus posties; Blackout; Wall collapse surprised the East;

White South Africa’s dirty tricks; And more from Shin Beth; Terrorism rewarded;

Cyberwar time; New Japanese intelligence agency

Time for NZ’s intelligence links to reflect reality

US admits to 40 years of US military occupation of Christchurch Airport – Deep Freeze

Deep Freeze celebrations should be cancelled

Base Deception: The US military at Christchurch Airport (new ABC video available)

Number 5, June 1995

Cover Story: Ron Smith 1921-1995 – Working Class Son, Peace Activist

Australian spooks hit the headlines (Warren Thomson): Chinese embassy in Canberra

Bugged; National interest and the intelligence club; Beijing spies on Australia;

Japan versus Australia; ASIS allegations upheld

Helen Clark – Batting for the spooks

US Air Force flights at Christchurch Airport (Bob Leonard)

Letters from Owen Wilkes (Bob Leonard)

Obituary: Christchurch’s US Consulate (Murray Horton)

Hong Kong spy base moves to Australia

Heavyhanded cops grill student activists (Murray Horton)

Internet brings problems for the spooks? (Warren Thomson)

Nuclear weapons clean-up costs (box)

ASIO – more on a murky past: Book review of “ASIO – An unofficial history” by Frank Cain

(by Warren Thomson)

Spooky Bits: Beijing spies in Australia?; Iraqi intelligence head flees; Push to cut US

Intelligence for UN; Crays no longer in season; US spies on Russian border;

Palestinian prisoner dies under Israeli torture; Woman spied for Nazi Germany;

A little tramp – or a subversive?

Acronyms and other esoteric animals

Obituary: Ron Smith (by Murray Horton)

Move to outlaw laser blinding

Kids want A-bomb memorial

Number 4, March 1995

Cover Story: Waihopai Protest 1995

UK intercepts NZ diplomatic traffic during Suez

Handling the media – GCSB style (box)

Why spy Waihopai? (Melanie Thomson)

Harewood likely for arms servicing

Orions - $100 million gift to humanity?

Moana Cole update – It’s official: convicts are no longer allowed in Australia

Computer wars and ‘friendly fire’ – new developments on the battlefield

Pentagon tries to get back into Philippines (Murray Horton)

Global military machinations – some recent developments (Warren Thomson):

US military budget remains enormous; Defence merger; US now dominates

arms sales; British pretensions remain; Nerve gas – more problems with old weapons;

Disposal of nerve gas in the Pacific

Aussie spies prepare for AD 2000

Move over James Bond (box)

Have the spooks been hacked?

Aussie spies bungle again

CIA file: Japanese CIA spooks lose jobs; And so does the CIA boss; New CIA director

Named; NOC NOC – who’s there?; Drugs or dissidents?; CIA Indonesian role

Confirmed

Russians listening from Cuba

ASIS fans the flames of suspicion

Spooky Bits: Iraqi poison campaign; Political bugging scandal in France; American spies

In France; More West German spies; More accusations afoot; Get our own spy

gadgets; Private eye numbers grown in NZ

“Bomber grounded, runway closed” by Ciaron O’Reilly (book announcement)

Number 3, December 1994

Cover Story: A Report on US Air Force Flights at Christchurch Airport

Flight data available at last! - from MFAT (Bob Leonard)

Pentagon faked Star Wars tests (box)

US military says Deep Freeze operations will continue

The military roots of Operation Deep Freeze – an obscure historical note

Le Carré on spies (box)

Two sentenced for trespass at Harewood (Moana Cole)

Waihopai – A veteran activist reminisces (Ron Smith)

Witch’s Brew – US military leaves toxic wastes nightmare at Clark and Subic

Update on fallout monitoring in NZ (Owen Wilkes)

Black Birch Naval Observatory – What victory? (Bob Leonard)

Biological weapons threat (box)

Waging peace against the fools on the Hill

Beware of governments bearing gifts

Government Communications Headquarters chops jobs

Israel’s murderous Mossad – killers abroad

Oz spies confirm lack of accountability

Spooky Bits: CIA – computer information for all?; The spies come in from the cold;

The Fifth Man; Boss attempted to murder Mandela; Graham Greene – MI6’s man

In Havana; Keeler still making waves; Spying is for the birds

Number 2, October 1994

Cover Story: “Family Fun” with the US Air Force

Western spooks demand access to private communications (Warren Thomson)

Troops depart: agendas abound (Moana Cole and Ciaron O’Reilly)

The tragedy of Bosnia: confronting the New World Disorder

Arrests at Harewood

Navy threatens to pull out of Antarctic support (Warren Thomson)

More spies in the sky

Black Birch to close! What’s going on? Have we won? (Owen Wilkes)

United States’s base behaviour revealed – Woodbourne cover-up made public

Pine Gap continues to grow

Frigates – cost soars, value disintegrates

Labour Party – still right behind Waihopai

Spooky Bits (NZ): Want to work for the GCSB?; An efficient SIS?

The Godfrey Case

…and more Spooky Bits: Langley antagonistic to Aristide; And Langley cover-up on

experiments; NRO deceives Congress; MI6 – a licence to kill; FBC paranoid

about Lennonism; …and other musicians

ASIO – political, paranoid and pointless: Book review of “Australia’s Spies and Their Secrets”

by David McKnight (by Warren Thomson)

Obituary: Catholic Commission for Justice, Peace and Development (Murray Horton)

Number 1, June 1994

Cover Story: Waihopai Action 1994

The return of Peace Researcher

NZ Army still practicing control of civilian protest

Ask too many questions – and die?

James Rusbridger – Sado-masochist or another victim?

The Intelligence Game – David Lange’s quotable quotes (box)

The secret base that never happened – not here anyway (Owen Wilkes)

ASIS in the Philippines (Murray Horton)

Wendy Holland – Australian spy in New Zealand (Warren Thomson)

British Intelligence – private dicks and dirty tricks: Book review of “Enemies of the State”

by Gary Murray (by Warren Thomson)

Spooky Bits: Beware of friends bearing gifts; Can you credit it?; The CIA deep in it

Guardian article indicates UKUSA partner’s subservience to the United States