[…] but also that British resources contributed significantly to the eventual success of the operation. Two first-hand accounts of the Anglo-American sponsorship of the coup – by the MI6 and CIA officers primarily responsible for it – are useful in reconstructing events.(1) Many of the secret planning documents that reveal the British role have been […]
[…] but less well known were Raymond Fletcher, and Le Cercle. Fletcher was a Labour MP who was witch-hunted by MI5 as a KGB asset when really an MI6 agent. New information on Le Cercle (aka the Pinay Circle: see Lobster 17) from Hollingsworth is the role of former MI6 officer Geoffrey Tantum as Le […]
[…] to this security/intelligence interest. The financial problems of the group would have been a matter of some concern to sections of the British government, and particularly to MI6, the department charged with protecting Britain’s foreign interests. Target Heseltine? Throughout 1990, the then British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, was fighting for her political life. Dissatisfaction […]
[…] we have Norman Baker, the Liberal-Democrat MP, who has kind of inherited the ‘awkward squad’ mantle from Tam Dalyell. He has had a short Commons debate on MI6 () and he is now pursuing the death of Dr David Kelly. In July he wrote ‘I believe David Kelly did not commit suicide – and […]
[…] However, when the car was examined by Operation Paget’s forensic team it was declared it to be in ‘good working order’.() The Security Services Unsurprisingly MI5 and MI6 have denied any involvement in the crash. Equally unsurprisingly their denial has not halted speculation. Members of an MI6 death squad were allegedly in Paris on […]
[…] link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds links to […]
[…] about the packed lunch…. I’m old enough to remember when the Sunday Times was a credible paper. Timor docs hidden Under the headline, ‘Britain keeps lid on MI6 role in ousting Sukarno’, Paul Lashmar in The Independent on 5 October reported: ‘…documents which would reveal Britain’s secret role in Indonesian politics in the Sixties […]
[…] In April 1961 the West’s most important Soviet spy, Oleg Penkovsky, arrived in London on a trade mission, staying until May 6th. The material he gave to MI6 and CIA representatives was to prove vital to resolving the Cuban missile crisis: Kennedy would base his final decisions on the Penkovsky material. (14) During this […]
[…] 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 are still […]
[…] had been against what he called the ‘war crimes business’ (Times 16 March 1985) – in this case referring to the assassination of Hitler and Heydrich. Perhaps MI6 were on their own with this one. The SAS plan seems never to have got off the ground, even though they had claimed that any evidence […]
