From: 1@eternity.demon.co.uk (Russell Earl Whitaker)
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 93 18:55:51 PDT
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Subject: 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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Russell Earl Whitaker                   whitaker@eternity.demon.co.uk
Communications Editor                                 AMiX: RWhitaker
EXTROPY: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought
Board member, Extropy Institute (ExI)
    Co-organizer, 1st European Conference on Computers, Freedom and
    Privacy, London, 20 November 1993