Informers
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In the 1970s, the leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and future Prime Minister of Australia, Robert J. Hawke, was an informer of the United States of America. Using diplomatic cables from official archives, this... more
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Spanish Abstract: En su teoría sobre la interacción estratégica, Erving Goffman muestra cómo las dinámicas de control de la información y de la infiltración de informantes en las líneas enemigas no son únicamente una cuestión de espionaje... more
This article challenges the adequacy of the existing legal and regulatory framework governing informant recruitment and coercion practices to protect fundamental rights, informed by the Muslim-American experience. It looks at the growing... more
Based on research in the archives of the Soviet penal camp system, this article addresses the phenomenon of corruption among officials of the Gulag in the period between 1945 and 1953. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, which oversaw the... more
This article addresses whether there are sufficient constraints on legal professionals acting as police informants, following the controversial ‘Lawyer X’ case. It examines key observations of the High Court of Australia in AB v CD; EF v... more
Recently, attention has been given to the question as to whether children should be used as covert human intelligence sources (CHIS), aka informers. Being a CHIS is a risky endeavour, particularly when the person is deployed against... more
As has been well documented, the printed word was an essential vehicle for the transmission of reformed theology, and one that has left a tangible record for historians to explore. Yet as contemporaries well recognized, books were only a... more
The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records,... more
El emergente contexto web 2.0 se caracteriza, entre otras circunstancias, por el creciente peso específico de los internautas quienes, de meros consumidores de contenidos se han erigido adicionalmente en productores de los mismos, dando... more
Tarkastelen tässä artikkelissa ilmiantamista sosiaalisena käytäntönä Suomen suuriruhtinaskunnassa vuosina 1899-1917. Kohdistan huomion ilmiantajiksi ryhtyneiden kansalaisten vuorovaikutukseen venäläisen virkavallan kanssa sekä tämän... more
Secret police files from the Eastern bloc. Between surveillance and life writing, edited by Valentina Glajar, Alison Lewis and Corina L. Petrescu
The communist secret police services of Central and Eastern Europe kept detailed records not only of their victims but also of the vast networks of informants and collaborators upon whom their totalitarian systems depended. These records,... more