Nicky Hager and Samuel Hume
Nicky Hager is an investigative journalist and author in New Zealand.
He has written seven books on intelligence, war, politics and public relations. His first article in CovertAction Magazine, then called CovertAction Quarterly (Winter. 1996/1997), was titled "Exposing the Global Surveillance System," the full text of which can be read in our archives and here.
Nicky can be reached at nhager@actrix.co.nz.
Samuel Hume is an independent journalist and teacher based in London. His work has appeared in Arena, Jacobin, and Pearls and Irritations.
His collected articles can be found on his Substack.
Samuel can be reached at samuelhume@proton.me.
In 2013, the year when the Edward Snowden intelligence leaks hit the news, the Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB) annual report stated that the New Zealand spy agency’s mission was “to inform and enhance the decision-making processes” of the government in pursuit of “an independent foreign policy programme.”
This claim...
