Alan Turnbull’s
Secret Bases
Media
Centre
Centre
A resumé of my recent media appearances
and coverage of my "Secret Bases" website
Contact details for journalists and
readers wishing to make enquiries,
contributions or research assistance requests
and coverage of my "Secret Bases" website
Contact details for journalists and
readers wishing to make enquiries,
contributions or research assistance requests
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media coverage and news exclusives throughout this page
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research assistance, or an accredited journalist making enquiries,
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of both BBC and ITV Granada television studios and all
major newspaper group offices in Manchester city centre
I am also available for live telephone interviews by appointment
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media coverage and news exclusives throughout this page
Whether you're a reader wishing to contribute something or ask for
research assistance, or an accredited journalist making enquiries,
just use the button below to get in touch!
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Print media journalists and TV/radio producers
I am conveniently located in Stockport, Cheshire within easy reachof both BBC and ITV Granada television studios and all
major newspaper group offices in Manchester city centre
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What the experts said about
An intelligent and innocuous guide to using theweb resources already online ... you've used
them better than others I've seen – well done!
A very interesting and useful compilation ...... it does not add to the danger to national security.
You are republishing open source material already widely in thepublic domain and not therefore increasing the danger to
sensitive sites. These sites should already not only be aware of
what is public, but also have taken security measures accordingly.
Defence, Press and Broadcasting Advisory (D-Notice) Committee
I've always been very supportive of your website ...... I have no intention of writing anything against it.
We need websites like this, if only to test the pronouncementsthat come out of Whitehall about 'open government'.
and former Senior Investigative Journalist at The Sunday Times
A thoroughly well-researched website ...... a near one-stop solution for researchers and students alike.
Your 'Secret Base' site is an excellent example of what can be achievedby painstaking, forensic research of what is available from open sources
and the Internet. Whatever might be deemed to be 'sensitive' has usually been
known to the 'opposition' for years and it is only the general public who are
denied their 'right to know' by officious, blinkered, low-level bureaucrats.
You persistent scallywag! As ever, absolutely fascinating content and marvellousdemonstration of your technical wizardry
Your website contains a vast amount of
first class, eye-opening information,based on original research. It's an exemplary example of how forensic analysis of
open source data can produce powerful results. I admire your investigative prowess
and wish you well in further testing the boundaries of 'freedom of information'.
A website that will have you digging out your OrdnanceSurvey maps, binoculars and walking boots double quick ...
... you're likely to spend hours transfixed by the revelations.
Cyber sleuthing ... cleverer than the Government was ever hoping you'd be. An expert at reading the empty spaces on Ordnance Survey maps. Spookbuster ... the website snooper who spies on the spies. Astonishing collection of information about military andgovernment sites that were kept from the maps until
satellite technology made such rulings redundant.
A jaw-dropping place to start. Be prepared to lose a whole day, though.
One of the pioneers who began filling in the maps' blank spaces. Mail on Sunday exclusives
Nov / Dec 2008, March 2009, July 2009, December 2009 and March 2010
On 30th November 2008, the Mail on Sunday reported my exclusive research in exposing how a council in the South East of England had posted full details of a new highly sensitive MI5 spy centre on its planning permission web portal and how I had warned the MoD of this.Just one week later on 7th December 2008, I provided key research and analysis for MoS but in a departure from my usual themes. I linked a list of collapsed building society Northern Rock repossessions – found posted at an anonymous internet address – to the famous property guru Ajay Ahuja, who had been using them to make vast profits. It was the lead article splashed across the front page of the paper and was later picked up by all other media.
On 22nd March 2009, I was back to Secret Base hunting – I provided the key location and research material for the MoS exclusive "Stasi HQ UK". The story revealed the anonymous building on an industrial park near Heathrow Airport used as the controversial e-Borders project's Joint Borders Operations Centre, where passenger lists are trawled for suspicious activity. The story was immediately propelled through hundreds of news blogs and forum chat rooms.
But the JBOC was already due to change name and move to a new location in Manchester. Could I find it for another exclusive? You bet! Meanwhile ...
British Press Awards 2010 – "Scoop of the Year" nomination
John Humphrys (right) presents Jason Lewis with
Specialist Journalist of the Year at the British Press Awards 2010 |
I stepped up a gear on 5th July 2009 when I provided another front page world exclusive for Jason Lewis, Security and Whitehall Editor at the Mail on Sunday.
I revealed how the wife of incoming head of MI6 Sir John Sawers had posted intimate details of their family life all over the social networking site Facebook!
In February 2010, the story was nominated in the Scoop of the Year category for the British Press Awards 2010 held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on 23rd March.
Not surprisingly, the actual award went to the Telegraph's story on the MPs' Expenses scandal but Jason Lewis did get Specialist Journalist of the Year – with a little help from his friend, I like to think!
I revealed how the wife of incoming head of MI6 Sir John Sawers had posted intimate details of their family life all over the social networking site Facebook!
In February 2010, the story was nominated in the Scoop of the Year category for the British Press Awards 2010 held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, Park Lane, London on 23rd March.
Not surprisingly, the actual award went to the Telegraph's story on the MPs' Expenses scandal but Jason Lewis did get Specialist Journalist of the Year – with a little help from his friend, I like to think!
On 27th December 2009 I worked my magic again by providing the MoS with key research linking the Climate Change leaked emails scandal – ahead of the Copenhagen Summit on Global Warming – to Chinese cyber warfare, when I traced the Russian server through Malaysia and onto Beijing.
By March 2010, exactly a year after the JBOC story, I was back to the e-Borders project and using my finely honed research techniques to uncover the new location "somewhere in Manchester" for the NBTC – National Border Targeting Centre.
Clues to secret
office block are
given away on
e-Borders website
office block are
given away on
e-Borders website
NEW! Secret location of e-Borders NEW!
National Border Targeting Centre
National Border Targeting Centre
How I pieced together the clues to find it
New Manchester
location for NBTC
on a Wythenshawe
business park
hinted at in PR blunder
location for NBTC
on a Wythenshawe
business park
hinted at in PR blunder
Were the
Chinese
People's
Liberation Army
really behind it?
Chinese
People's
Liberation Army
really behind it?
Chinese cyber warfare hackers linked to
Climate Change leaked emails scandal
Climate Change leaked emails scandal
How I linked the Russian server through Malaysia to China
Copenhagen
Summit
targeted by
Russian FSB
secret services?
Summit
targeted by
Russian FSB
secret services?
Secret
commercially sensitive
document by e-Borders
prime contractor
Raytheon Systems
posted on Internet
commercially sensitive
document by e-Borders
prime contractor
Raytheon Systems
posted on Internet
Queen and all VIPs to be checked by
National Border Targeting Centre
National Border Targeting Centre
VIPs no longer able
to travel under false names
in new Trusted Borders
anti-terror
database system
policed by NBTC
to travel under false names
in new Trusted Borders
anti-terror
database system
policed by NBTC
Doh! MI6 chief Sir John Sawers on Facebook!
How I found all of his personal
family photos, friends lists and more
family photos, friends lists and more
