STATE SECRETS Ben C Vidgen.

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STATE SECRETS was published in 1999.

It became an instant best seller and rose to number 2# on the New Zealand nonfiction best seller market. This is despite what Scoop Media called a “media blackout” of the book by the major media outlets.

I wrote my book because I wanted people to understand we were living in a news age, witnessing the death of nation states, were espionage, organised crime and terrorism, went way beyond the traditional scope of national borders. Thus, outsourcing national security to corporate strategic partners and intelligence assets (operating outside state confines and oversights) meant opening the oyster shell wide open and exposing it to the very worse of these new geo-political toxins and the destabilising forces that came with them.

It would lead in New Zealand’s case to the evolution of a professional criminal class. One expressed on the streets via an escalating drug problem and the emergence of never before seen ultra-violent armed gangs. I forecast accurately we would see as result increased destabilisation in the Pacific and the evolution of domestic terrorism, hate crimes, housing issues, a dive in the quality of our lives, as the gap between rich and poor widened. Accountability and transparency would die as result of negligence and corruption from on high. Their survival would lie in polarising our society and poking it underlying social wounds. Today’s headlines vindicate that analyst but frankly ‘I told you so’ is not much of a conciliation prize.

I based my information on street sources (largely gained through my other double life working all aspects of the hospitality trade), whose material I then had vetted and tested by my own professional sources in New Zealand Customs, with whom I worked investigating jointly Russian mafia money laundering, the New Zealand military intelligence (where I worked on attachment in Counter intelligence and the Force Intelligence Group as a Royal New Zealand Artillery Intelligence Operator; a lowly gunner in the territorials but still a position where I got to look listen and talk to those with considerable experience and rank who would never have opened up to a journalist), New Zealand Police’s Organised Crime Units and New Zealand academics.

Twenty years later State Secrets has stood the test of time and being vindicated on virtually every account it raises.

I’m still dyslexic and I’m still a shitty typist, so if your first love is the English language close your eyes and walk away – you’ll save us both a lot of grief. Yet if you want to read a book, crammed with in depth research, written twenty years ago and see if the signs where on the wall click the image at the top and crack on. — Yours Sincerely Ben Vidgen.

Scoop Media endorsement on the State Secrets.

Why the war on drugs was doomed to fail. State Secrets Review VJM

STATE SECRETS II

Coasting Otago Out of Print – NOT AVALIBLE.

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BENS NEW ZEALAND – THE REAL MIDDLE EARTH (sold out).

REFERALS SOUTHLAND TIMES STUFF

Articles and interviews with/by Ben Vidgen.

1. State of Terror (Nexus Magazine 95/96) this piece has now being translated now into about a half dozen languages) Focus on rise of Neo Nazi or right wing terror and the role of US funding in Islamic terrorism.

“Since the final days of World War II, the totalitarian seekers have made use of people’s hatred by establishing a clandestine Fascist network…Through a combination of individuals, government-endorsed death squads, influential religion-based secret societies and even governments, the freedom and willpower of the people are being destroyed. Terrorism has become the new means by which the old strategy of divide and conquer is being implemented on a global scale.”

This article is cited in following texts ; Afghanistan: The Genesis of the Final Crusade – Google Books Result Abid Ullah Jan – 2006 – ‎Afghan War, 2001- Page 33

American Shadow (Pemerintahan Bayangan AS)– SUMBER REFERENSI American State Terrorism / A Critical Review of the Objectives of U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post World War II Period BBC.

CIA – Godfather of Global Terrorism China Daily

Guerra alla libertà. Il ruolo dell’amministrazione Bush nell’attacco dell’11 . (Guerill Liberty role Bush administration 911) Page 39

A bloody good review here to boot here which is always nice.

PACIFIC JIHAD One of the world’s most-wanted terrorists has visited New Zealand without being arrested by security authorities here, despite his involvement in attacks that have killed or injured more than 900 people. October 2000 where I report on Osama Bin laden plans to use civilian aircraft and target buildings in the USA. We had no idea how close to the money (literally) we were.

Christchurch Mosque interview with President Bashir Khan following the Christchurch shooting NZs own 9/11

Stuff interviews Ben Vidgen about Waihopai US growing space presence in Aotearoa
Stuff interview Ben Vidgen about New Zealand Constitutionalism and the TPPA.
Stuff interviews Ben Vidgen on New Zealand constitutional issues, civil liberties and the TPPA
Stuff interviews Ben Vidgen on the rise of alternative right in New Zealand ‘Indy media scene.

Ben Vidgen talking on the TPPA 2015 on national security implications of the TPPA and how we need to stop view this as left-wing right wing partisan issue as both Labour National were responsible in a corporate tag team mugging of the people. Address’s the issue of how Labour and National and the smaller parties all helped dismantle New Zealand constitutionalism by change in courts, failed flag debate, stacking the 2013 constitutional review board.