Nicky Hager

Nicky Hager  (author, journalist)
Born	New Zealand
Nationality	New Zealand
Exposed	UKUSA
Interests	Intelligence services
New Zealand-based investigative journalist

Nicky Hager is a journalist in Wellington, New Zealand, and author of Secret Power: New Zealand’s Role in the International Spy Network (Craig Potton Publishing, Nelson, New Zealand, 1996, ISBN 0908802358), which uncovered New Zealand's role in the UKUSA Echelon intelligence network. The book is out of print and the best price for a used copy on Amazon UK (as at September 2010) is £76.00.

 

Documents by Nicky Hager

Title	Document type	Publication date	Subject(s)	Description
Document:Israel's omnicient ears	article	September 2010	Israel	Israeli Signals Intelligence base at Urim in the Negev Desert
Document:New Zealand SIS	speech	1 February 2011	New Zealand Security Intelligence Service
File:Secret Power.pdf	book	1996	UKUSA Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior	A detailed account of how the integration of New Zealand into the UKUSA global signals interception system was achieved with neither the knowledge not consent of the country's senior politicians - in particular Prime minister David Lange who wrote the foreword to this book. It also deals with the infamous Rainbow Warrior incident in detail

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
International Festival of Whistleblowing Dissent and Accountability	8 May 2021	8 May 2021	Internet	Whistleblowing event held in 2021.

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Your Man in the Public Gallery: Assange Hearing Day 13	blog post	20 September 2020	Craig Murray	“Strictly protect” is nothing to do with security classification, which is what protects national security information. As Nicky Hager said, its normal use is to prevent political embarrassment. As in Australasia, it is a term largely used to protect their secret political assets.

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