SECURITY SERVICE

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32015, 16 June 1969, Page 7

SECURITY SERVICE

* Mr Boshier’s i Views ; The only times the Security i Service in New Zealand had ; been forced into the open ' when it displayed its ability at bungling and inI e l f L Cl^ ncy ’ a Victoria University lecturer in psychology, Mr R. W. Boshier, told Canterbury University students : on Friday. It distinguished itself by the personal inadequacies and ineffectiveness of its staff and its refusal to be controlled by Parliament, he said. Mr Boshier was invited to address the students yesterday both in the city and at Ilam. The invitation arose from his own experience with the police last April when he was interviewed about a list of security agents he had revealed at the Labour Party conference. Mr Boshier described the director of the service (Brigadier H. E. Gilbert) as a rather dangerous hangover of the McCarthy era and a threat to civil liberties. Over the years, he said, Brigadier Gilbert had clung to his highly personal and eccentric views about communism, even though the Government had changed its approach to Communist countries. In his latest interview on television Brigadier Gilbert had indicated that his own views of communism had not changed. Mr Boshier said the Security Service had done its best to discredit the Labour Party and keep it from office.