[…] with internal subversion, with Northern Ireland serving as a case study. As Peter Taylor points out in his book on the Stalker affair, it was unlikely that MI5, whose C3 section was responsible for vetting the police, would have allowed him to get this far if there had been a skeleton in his cupboard. […]
[…] first place, Wright never did allege that the Service plotted against the Wilson government. He alleged that certain members of the Service did so conspire. Secondly, notice MI5 does not actually deny that the Service had plotted to undermine Wilson: not finding any evidence is not a denial; and thirdly, there is no mention […]
[…] present time there have been innuendoes in the press to the effect that I am ‘the Fifth Man’, in other words a Soviet agent. The Director-General of MI5 should state publicly that he has unequivocal, repeat, unequivocal, evidence, that I am not, and never have been a Soviet agent.”(2) It was a bizarre letter […]
MI5 and the Wilson Plot The MI5 website (www.mi5.gov.uk) has a section called ‘myths and misunderstandings’, which features, among other things, ‘the Wilson Plot’. The paragraph it devotes to this episode is worth studying. It refers the reader to Spycatcher and Peter Wright’s allegation that ‘up to 30 members of the Service had […]
[…] is the main reason for the new top level censorship committee that was set up in London earlier this year.’ Much more on this at http://cryptome.org/markov-file.htm http://cryptome.org/markov-file2.htm MI5 miscellany Shayler backs Peter Wright David Shayler’s piece in The Observer on 14 January, ‘Why I blew the gaff’, illustrated why he has been received with […]
[…] years older than me and had a serious of indiscreet relationships including some with members of staff at PNL, relationships of which her husband had been unaware. MI5 were concerned because, as David Shayler has recently confirmed, they thought that some junior members of the CPGB had been recruited as KGB assets in this […]
[…] of Communications Tribunal because of its limited remit. (21) He has also used the Data Protection Act 1998 to make subject access requests to various authorities, including MI5 and GCHQ, in an attempt to obtain personal data they hold on him. These have been unsuccessful, and Kennedy had initially hoped to challenge the certificates […]
[…] is there worth saying that isn’t blindingly and depressingly obvious and predictable? Jack Straw, who took over as Home Secretary, and thus formally as the boss of MI5, is determined to sedate any sleeping dogs he comes across. When former MI5 officer, David Shayler, turned up bearing bad news about MI5, Straw bolted for […]
[…] increasingly dire shape, and current levels of government funding for the agencies can no longer be taken for granted. (1) As a result, both the major agencies, MI5 and MI6, have been engaged in high profile operations part of whose rationale has manifestly been to show their nominal masters in the Government that they […]
[…] as a minister, said committee had investigated nothing of consequence and issued a number of anodyne reports. No new revelatory horrors seemed to be on the horizon. MI5 and SIS had got their new buildings – rewards for the miners’ strike and Gordievsky, respectively – through the Whitehall system before the cuts began to […]
