John Young wrote:
SUMMARY: Britain is thinking of moving to a government/corporate merger system of secret intelligence agencies, but without making it an 'open secret' as is done in the US. Bickford revealed that, in 1995, the intelligence agencies had secretly suggested to the Major government that they develop links to large companies in order to provide them with protective business intelligence. The main threat to Britain now was serious economic crime and super-terrorism, involving the use of weapons of mass destruction, he said. Not only were operational officers with long experience in intelligence being lost to the private sector, others were lost because they had to take up management posts instead of carrying on in intelligence. Tax payers were having to pay for this waste of experience, Bickford claimed. A new national intelligence agency should be formed, he added, in order to provide protective business intelligence. It could even charge for its services. It was long overdue for the Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee to instigate the process of amalgamating the three agencies. Bickfords call for more intelligence and security expertise for business was backed by Sir Peter Imbert, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, and other senior ex-police officers. [Duncan Campbell is a freelance writer and broadcaster, and not the Guardians crime correspondent of the same name] POST-SUMMARY: Truth in Fascism will allow for greater efficiency in sending citizens and troops overseas to die for Texaco and Pepsico, since there will no longer be a need to waste time and resources on promoting some bullshit 'freedom and democracy' claptrap to justify the murder of foreigners who fuck with corporate cash flow.