Letter: Patricia Lindop obituary
by Steve Wright from on (#3NZFZ)
Anthony Tucker's obituary for Patricia Lindop mentioned that she helped found the Society for Education in the Applications of Science. Thanks to Lord (Brian) Flowers and Patricia, I was a grateful beneficiary of a grant from the society in 1976, to study for a PhD on the Technologies of Political Control at Lancaster University. It wasn't a smooth journey.
In April 1977, Special Branch raided the university and took my research, as I had inadvertently stumbled across aerials at the back of the university feeding into the US's Echelon monitoring programme via Menwith Hill in north Yorkshire. Lawyers were needed to get it back.
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