Security Service
Sir,—“Back Up The Brig?’ considers that “we should ■ shed our complacency.” We could begin by taking a long
hard look at the fact that in-adequately-controlled security services resulted in the 0.G.P.U. of Russia, the secret police of Hitler’s Germany and the C.I.A. of the United States. All these developed into organisations which terrorised individuals, misinformed their own governments and exacerbated international relationships. From small cloak-and-dagger establishments they grew iiito huge organisations with vested interests in their own expansion. Controlled by fanatics of the extreme Left or extreme Right they were, or became, merchants of fear and hate. They supported autocracy and totalitariansm and showed little regard for ordinary human decency or independence. In terms somewhat remote from the principles of democracy the head of our own security service has already lauded those whom he chose to regard as “true-blue New Zealanders.” Our Brig.-backer may be one. —■Yours, etc., SCRUTINEER. May 6, 1969.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31981, 7 May 1969, Page 16
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