INDEX	January 31, 2024
Spook sacked for illegal spying
SOURCES	Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has sacked Alessandro Moretti, the deputy head of the country's intelligence service. The issue is interference in the police investigation into illegal espionage during the government of Lula's predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. It is alleged that ABIN, the Brazilian spooks agency, conducted an illegal espionage operation targeting a governor who is now a minister, judges, lawmakers, politicians and journalists. The local police said a fortnight ago that a total of about 30,000 people were victims. The spooks used Israeli spyware FirstMile. The allegations are similar to a very old story (back in the news now thanks to the release of government papers about the MI5/KGB double agent Michael Bettany) that MI5 targeted former PM Harold Wilson since they stupidly believed he was a Soviet spy. Clearly it could happen here but GCHQ's spying operations are on a completely different scale to the Brazilian ones. It's much bigger here in the UK. Will an incoming Labour government copy Brazil and crack down on the British spooks, if only for its own protection? No it won't. Labour is hopelessly corrupted by the spooks.
BBC Brazil's Lula sacks deputy intelligence chief amid spying probe
El Pais Police investigate Brazil’s intelligence chief under Bolsonaro over claims of political spying.
La Prensa Latina Lula fires deputy director of intelligence amid espionage case
My blog Sue Gray, the person got in to write a report on the breaking of lockdown regulations at 10 Downing Street, took time off to run a pub in Northern Ireland during the troubles. These were known as listening posts. Both MI5 and MI6 operated in Northern Ireland
My blog Starmer's relationship with MI5 throws a new light on the recruitment of Sue Gray as chief of staff for the Labour Party.
My blog More than 1,000 organisations have been spied on, often infiltrated, activists befriended and sometimes officers have even instigated long term sexual relationships with group members.
My blog MI5 has opened files on a million people. Many of these are completely illegal since to comply with the Human Rights Act of 1998, MI5 must notify every person who has a file created before the Security Service Act of 1989.
My blog Liberty and Privacy International have won a case against MI5 and the Home Office proving they have stored and handled data on members of the public illegally for years. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal recognised that the state not only failed to protect the right to privacy, but actively violated it.
INDEX Jonathan Brind	January 31, 2024