Duncan Campbell (investigative journalist)
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Duncan Campbell is a freelance investigative journalist and television producer who has specialised in intelligence issues, was prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act in the 'ABC Trial' in 1978 and made the controversial series Secret Society for the BBC in 1987 (see Zircon affair). He was a staff writer and assistant editor of the New Statesman from 1978-91.
He should not be confused with another Duncan Campbell, who is a long-standing correspondent for The Guardian.
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In 1980, his article revealing the existence of the secret Standing Committee on Pressure Groups (SCOPG) in Hong Kong lead to the revelation that most pressure groups and individual members of the opposition were under surveillance by the colonial government. Duncan's article asserts that Hong Kong under then governor Sir Murray MacLehose had become a dictatorship. In his words: "Hong Kong is a dictatorship; and scarcely a benevolent one."
Campbell revealed in 1988, in an article titled "Someone listening" and published in The New Statesman, the existence of the ECHELON surveillance program.
In 1999 he wrote a report on COMINT entitled Interception Capabilities 2000 for the European Parliament.
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- Campbell, D. (1980). Colonialism: A Secret Plan for Dictatorship New Statesman, December 12, 1980.
- Campbell, D. (1981). Big Brother is Listening: Phone Tappers and the Security State. New Statesman Report 2.
- Campbell, D. (1982). War Plan UK: The Truth about Civil Defence in Britain (1st ed.). Burnett Books. ISBN 0-09-150670-0 (hardback), ISBN 0-09-150671-9 (paperback). 1983 Revised edition Paladin Books ISBN 0-586-08479-7.
- Campbell, D. (1988). Somebody's Listening. New Statesman, 12 August 1988.
- Campbell, D. (1984). The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier: American Military Power in Britain. Michael Joseph. ISBN 0-7181-2289-5 (hardback), ISBN 0-7181-2350-6 (paperback).
