[…] Clive Ponting have their mail opened. (Guardian 5 September) GCHQ De-unionisation of GCHQ apparently resisted by Sir Douglas Wass (at the Treasury) and Sir Frank Cooper (at MOD) when it was first suggested in late 1982. (Times 28 August) GCHQ staff being asked to allow security staff to see their medical records. (Daily Telegraph […]
[…] with the US Department of Defense officials, no record of the mission had been found. Clearly this was no denial. Moreover, the official who responded to the MOD enquiry was Bernard Rostker, the Special Assistant for Gulf War Illness. Hardly the person one would expect to be privy to top secret information on a […]
[…] S Rajh Jughemia 11867 Alexander 371 2399 Momtaz Ali 303 390-0693 212 371 1152 Carry Majgurski 212 988 5550 Michael W Yarbourgh MGT Group Inc 505-268 4100 MOD Roger Dach Maj 2184164 Larry Majewski 9885550 Murbe Abdul 305 723 2311 Murbe’s mother (Marjon): Kenya – 23436 Geo Carsten (MOD) 632 6444 Peter Ford – […]
[…] Advisory Team. Other than confirming that 4 Field Survey Troop were in Northern Ireland when and where Holroyd said they were, no further information was forthcoming, the MOD replying, through junior minister Roger Freeman, that ‘Detailed information on this unit, which is not now deployed in the Province, is not available.'() Fast forward to […]
[…] and Richard Koldewey. I just give them their busfare kick them out (usually by stamping on their clutching fingers) and correct from where I see the stone-throwing mod forming. Richard Koldewey commands the 1 RTR Air Squadron here in Omagh and is a dead keen novice with about 40 free-falls to his name. He’s […]
[…] Ritter as a ‘secretive intelligence activity buried inside the DIS which dealt with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction’.(19) Comfortable consorting with the press (Kelly also attended an MOD senior officers TV course at Wilton Park), we are told by Nick Rufford of The Sunday Times that Kelly had sometimes been ‘an undercover man for […]
[…] an interesting figure. A sometime full-time soldier, now with the BBC, Urban affects not to be just the traditional defence correspondent, dependent on the droppings of the MOD press office. He notes in this book that while he was entitled to non-attributable briefings from the MOD, he chose not to have them while writing […]
Rob Evans, Nicola Butler, Eddie Goncalves Student CND, London 1991, £3.00 The contents list is reproduced here. This is not my field but Rob Evans of the Campaign Against Military Research on Campus (CAMROC) now has quite a track record in this area. This is available at £3.00 from Student CND, 162 Holloway Road, London […]
[…] by the Ministry of Defence that in an operation called HORNBEAM, trawlers had been used during the first Cold War to spy on Soviet shipping. But the MOD spokesperson refused to confirm that some trawlers had carried intelligence officers. Statewatch Bulletin (Jan/Feb 1992) includes an important update to their paper on Gladio network, quoting […]
[…] to serve in NATO. The US and the UK have dominated serious appointments in NATO for years, for this reason. It is the driving priority of the MOD to keep it that way. They do not think in terms of national interest, but of both MOD interest and the American interest.’ And talking about […]
