Duncan Campbell

Duncan Campbell   (journalist)
Born	1952
Exposed	ECHELON
Celebrated investigative journalist.

Duncan Campbell is a British freelance investigative journalist, author and television producer. Since 1975 he has specialised in the subjects of intelligence and security services, defence, policing, civil liberties and, latterly, computer forensics. He was a staff writer at the New Statesman from 1978–91 and associate editor (Investigations) from 1988-91. He was prosecuted under the 1911 Official Secrets Act in the ABC trial in 1978 and made the series Secret Society for the BBC in 1987 (see the Zircon affair). In 1988, he revealed the existence of the ECHELON surveillance program.

The Guardian

Duncan Campbell is a freelance writer who worked for The Guardian for more than 20 years, as crime correspondent and Los Angeles correspondent. He previously worked for City Limits, Time Out and LBC. He is the author of two novels, "If It Bleeds", published in 2009, and "The Paradise Trail", (2008) and five non-fiction books, including "The Underworld" and "That Was Business, This Is Personal".

GCHQ

Duncan Campbell has exposed state snooping for nearly 40 years. In 1976, he revealed for the first time the existence of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) in a piece for Time Out magazine called, "The Eavesdroppers". This led to his arrest under the Official Secrets Act the following year, when the government attempted to imprison him for 30 years.

After the trial, he joined the New Statesman magazine. During his 15 years, he investigated Britain’s secret phone-tapping centres, corruption in GCHQ, secret war time plans to suspend civil liberties, and the top secret global surveillance programme, Echelon. Recently, he has produced reports based on the Snowden files for the Independent, including how the British Embassy in Berlin was being used as a covert listening station.

CryptoFestival

Against a backdrop of surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ and tracking by companies such as Google and Facebook, the "CryptoFestival" explored surveillance culture, and looked at some platforms and projects that are being created with privacy as a principal aim, and offered practical advice on how to protect your data.

The format was a mixture of talks, workshops, and activities. The "CryptoFestival" was free and intended for everyone; no prior technical expertise or knowledge was assumed. Part of the day involved practical aspects, so many brought along their device of choice!

 

Documents by Duncan Campbell

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:GCHQ and Me: My Life Unmasking British Eavesdroppers	Article	3 August 2015	GCHQ UKUSA SIGINT Edward Snowden ECHELON Robert Hannigan ABC Trial Transparency International Menwith Hill Reiner Braun	No one at the May 2015 conference on intelligence, security and privacy argued against greater openness. Thanks to Edward Snowden and those who courageously came before, the need for public accountability and review has become unassailable.
Document:Memo To Prime Minister - Your Merchants of Death Are Cooking The Books	article	17 October 1980	Arms deal Margaret Thatcher Millbank Technical Services
Document:Why the secret handshake between police and Freemasons should worry us	Article	2 January 2018	Metropolitan Police Freemasonry Brian Paddick	Successive Met Commissioners have tried to end the society’s influence. It is as clear as ever that membership of both bodies is incompatible with public service.

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