‘Nobody told us we could do this’

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[PDF file]: […] less grand than those O’Donnell arranged between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats: less opulent surroundings, fewer civil servants, no one from the Palace, the head of MI5 not around to give urgent advice. It all felt a bit perfunctory and was not helped by Labour failing to put a clear deal to the […]

Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime

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[PDF file]: […] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

Signs of the times

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[PDF file]: […] Trade Unions; and that committee was a front for the CPGB.13 Moscow gold In the conclusion of my essay The Clandestine Caucus14 I discussed the fact that MI5 chose to allow the Soviets to fund the Communist Party of Great Britain. They had known about the money – literally bags of used notes from […]

Newsinger Uproar

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[…] way of keeping them out of the USA. According to Norman: ‘The Bureau had regarded Mick as an anti-American subversive since 1967 when its collusion with British MI5 in the Acid King David affair had led to his trial, imprisonment, and consequent exile from the United States for two years afterwards’. In 1972, Jagger […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

A Thorn in Their Side: The Hilda Murrell murder by Robert Green with Kate Dewes

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] noting on p. 196 in his long list of outstanding items in the case: ‘From my experience as a Naval Intelligence officer with a top security clearance, MI5 would have discovered I knew there were things to hide over the Falklands War which were potentially more serious than the torpedoing of the General Belgrano.’ […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

The view from the bridge

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[…] state that is America? Is it just personal greed? See no evil On a single day in mid August I found the following stories on dailymaverick.co.za: ‘Revealed: MI5 and MI6 are training senior spies from Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt’ ‘”Paralysing a nation”: Evidence emerges of Royal Navy’s complicity in Saudiled sea blockade of […]

Shameless!

Lobster Issue 62 (Winter 2011) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Trotskyist doctrine that the workers should ‘take no part in the bosses’ war’. A paid official and organiser of the ILP from 1940, he was monitored by MI5 but no action was taken against him. Perhaps this was because he was declared unfit for war service on medical grounds and thus never had to […]

Zelensky Ukraine parapolitics

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[…] a separate investigation of his was being blocked by Ivan Bakonov, chief of Ukraine’s internal security service, the SBU (Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy, roughly analogous to the UK’s MI5). Ryaboshapka had been looking into the long-running PrivatBank scandal, which had shocked Ukraine when it came to light in 2016. The private-sector bank, which held the […]

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