[…] the Thatcher government to push through a highly ambitious nuclear power programme which set the context for this murder. We know from Cathy Massiter (17) that the MoD and Home Office were using MI5 to monitor anti-nuclear war protesters, and from Gareth Parry (18) that an American company, thought to be pressurised water reactor […]
[…] which came in after 1997 which I had not seen before and intelligence got swept up in that.’ During the bombing of Yugoslavia the pressure from the MOD press office to come up with good news was intense. Morrison said: ‘What I did, in effect, was within my crisis staff, set up in effect […]
[…] MI5’s analysis of the “45 minute report” and highlights the original circulation of the document to various departments. The usual suspects are there: SIS, MI5, GCHQ and MOD get between 7 copies for MI5 and 20 copies for MI6. But also listed are 32 (yes 32) copies for the DTI. Why? I wonder. Some […]
[…] (PIU) and Forward Strategy Unit. (5) The PIU reviewed the UK’s energy policy at a 4 July 2001 seminar: Mulgan introduces, hands over to Chair, Kevin Tebbit (MOD). Then there are presentations by Sian Davies (the Henley Centre, which has several Demos members), Bob Tyrrell (Demos) and Ged Davis (Shell, a Demos funder) and […]
[…] Educated at Oxford, Mills was a young civil servant at what became the Ministry of Defence and part of the ‘fast-track’ for promotion intake. He left the MOD after only a few years, taking the bar examination and becoming a barrister. Though not yet a qualified lawyer, during his brief career at the MOD, […]
[…] part of the on-going joint Ministry of Defence/MI5 effort to contain and discredit Fred Holroyd’s account of the SAS undercover units in Northern Ireland. In 1988 the MOD fed a barrow-load of disinformation to a trio of Sunday Times journalists, led by James Adams, about a unit called 14th Intelligence. Formed in the early […]
[…] had also worked at Farnham Castle, a government centre for intelligence briefing, from 1974-84. Before that, he was attached to the Crown Agency and also IMS, the MoD company. He later achieved a more public profile as the Chairman of Westland. 3i (a name difficult to find in indexes) was involved with many of […]
[…] Lords on Gulf War Veterans issues. On behalf of Tim Sebastian, she privately took up the matter of Operation Black Cat with a senior minister at the MOD. She was also kind enough to do the same with our Black Dog story with Dr. John Reid, whose only response was an off-the-cuff remark about […]
[…] visit and correspond with Michael who continues to vigorously fight his conviction. We believe he is a victim of a miscarriage of justice perpetrated by the British MOD, Crown Prosecution Service and Police. The British Security Services continue their underhanded methods as revealed by the current case of ex-MI5 spy, David Shayler, who tried […]
I began writing this at the beginning of August. It was then some 8 months or so after Colin Wallace’s release from prison. Some kind of summing up seemed appropriate. A great many journalists have now looked at his allegations – a handful in some detail – and, so far, they have all stood up. […]
