24-10-2014, 06:47 PM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Dangerous people historians. Definitely as bad as ISIS. Gotta keep an eye on them.
Quote:http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oc...cret-filesMI5 spied on leading British historians for decades, secret files reveal
Eric Hobsbawm and Christopher Hill had phones tapped, correspondence intercepted and friends and wives monitored
- Richard Norton-Taylor
- The Guardian, Friday 24 October 2014
British historian Eric Hobsbawm at work in January 1976. Photograph: Wesley/Getty Images
Earlier that year, MI6 asked MI5 if they had any objection to telling the CIA that Hobsbawm was going on a tour of South America funded, to its surprise, by the Rockefeller Foundation (Hobsbawm had already visited Cuba). In a document marked Top Secret, dated 13 May 1963, MI5 told MI6: "A reliable and very delicate source has reported that Hobsbawm visited a number of countries."
Er, Hobsbawm on a Rockefeller-funded jolly?
Now that is news.
"There are three sorts of conspiracy: by the people who complain, by the people who write, by the people who take action. There is nothing to fear from the first group, the two others are more dangerous; but the police have to be part of all three,"
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche