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CONFERENCE: The Security Services: Are They a Threat to Freedom?
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Libertarian Alliance
One Day Conference
THE SECURITY SERVICES: ARE THEY A THREAT TO FREEDOM?
Date: Sunday, 14 November, 1993
(PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS CONFERENCE IS ON A SUNDAY,
AND NOT A SATURDAY AS IS OUR NORMAL PRACTICE)
Admission: 5.00 pounds UK per person. By ticket only.
Venue: The Jubilee Room
The New Cavendish Club
44 Great Cumberland Place
(entrance in Upper Berkeley Street)
London W1H 8BS
(Nearest tube: Marble Arch)
10.30am - 11.00am Arrival - Tea and Coffee will be served
Introduction by Simon McIlwaine,
Conference Chairman
11.00am - 12.00pm Brian Crozier
"The Security Services and Their Role in A Free Society"
12.00 Noon - 12.30pm Discussion
Brian Crozier is one of Britain's leading thinkers and writers
on foreign policy and defence issues. His books include
Strategy of Survival, The Rebels, A Theory of Conflict, Neo-
Colonialism, The Future of Communist Power, The Minimal State
and The Struggle for the Third World. His autobiography, Free Agent,
was published this year and extracts were serialised in The Times.
12.30pm - 1.30 pm Lunch Break
1.30pm - 2.30pm Robin Ramsay
"Unsupervised and Uncontrolled: The Problem of Security
Services in a Free Society"
2.30pm - 3.00pm Discussion
Robin Ramsay is editor of Lobster, Britain's premier, and
highly respected journal on parapolitics, "conspiracy" and the
"secret state". He is co-author of Smear: Wilson and the Secret
State and has contributed to a wide range of publications,
including Tribune, Open Eye, and The Times Higher Education Supplement.
3.00pm - 3.15pm Tea Break
3.15pm - 4.15pm Larry O'Hara
"Searchlight Magazine: A Case Study in Secret
State Media Manipulation"
4.15pm - 4.45pm Discussion
Larry O'Hara is an independent researcher into fascism and
the "secret state". He is currently completing his Ph.d on
"The National Front, 1986-1990" at Birckbeck College. His articles
include "Notes From the Underground: British Fascism 1974-1992"
in Lobster and "British Fascism: The Persistence of Anti-Semitism"
in Return.
4.45pm - 5.45pm Brian Micklethwait
"What Should Libertarians Do About the Spies?"
5.45pm - 6.15pm Discussion
Brian Micklethwait is Editorial Director of the Libertarian
Alliance. He appears regularly on British television and radio
on behalf of the LA as well as speaking widely at universities and
political meetings. As well as his writing for the LA, he has
contributed to such publications as Economic Affairs, Gay News
and Ideer Om Frihet.
6.15pm Close of Conference
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Communications Editor AMiX: RWhitaker
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought
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