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Cathy Massiter is a British whistleblower and former member of MI5 who revealed that the British security service carried out surveillance of British trade unions, civil rights organisations and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. She sustained her revelations via a affidavit.〔Andy McSmith ( ''No Such Thing As Society'' ), Constable & Robinson, 2010, p.63-64〕 From the late 1960s until the mid-1970s, the MI5 designated the CND, an anti-nuclear weapons organisation, as subversive by virtue of its being "communist controlled". Communists had played an active role in the organisation, and John Cox, its chairman from 1971 to 1977, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain. From the late 1970s, MI5 downgraded CND to "communist-penetrated". In 1985, Massiter, who as an MI5 officer had been responsible for the surveillance of CND from 1981 to 1983, resigned and made disclosures to a Channel 4 ''20/20 Vision'' programme, "MI5's Official Secrets". She said that her work was determined more by the political importance of CND than by any security threat posed by subversive elements within it, and argued that the organisation was contravening the rules governing its practices.〔James Rusbridger (''The Intelligence Game: The Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage'' ), London: I.B. Taurus, 1991, p.208. Originally published by The Bodley Head in 1989.〕 In 1983, she analysed telephone intercepts on John Cox that gave her access to conversations with Joan Ruddock and Bruce Kent. MI5 also placed a spy, Harry Newton, in the CND office. According to Massiter, Newton believed that CND was controlled by extreme left-wing activists and that Bruce Kent might be a crypto-communist, but Massiter found no evidence to support either opinion.〔Bateman, D., ''( The Trouble With Harry: A memoire of Harry Newton, MI5 agent )'', Lobster, Issue 28, December 1994. Accessed 3 November 2011.〕 CND activist Pat Arrowsmith, who had known Newton for twenty-five years, disputed the veracity of Massiter's allegations against him.〔 On the basis of Ruddock's contacts, she had given an interview to a Soviet newspaper in 1981, MI5 suspected her of being a communist sympathiser. Massiter also revealed the surveillance of Harriet Harman and Patricia Hewitt, who had respectively held the posts of the legal officer and general secretary of the National Council for Civil Liberties.〔Christopher Andrew (''The Defence of the Realm: The Authorized History of MI5'', London: Penguin, 2012, p.1305 )〕 Richard Norton-Taylor wrote in 2001 that Massiter's revelations in 1985 had never been officially challenged by the government.〔Richard Norton-Taylor ("Truth, but not the whole truth" ), ''The Guardian'', 11 September 2001〕 == References == 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cathy Massiter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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