[…] we don’t know enough about the extent of MI5’s domestic operations to decide if MI5 has been or could ever be ubiquitous. After receiving Lobster 27, former BOSS agent Gordon Winter (see Lobster 18) wrote to point out that the MI5 agent and agent provocateur, Pat Daly, was a classic example of the saying […]
[…] ‘supported Israel’. 5 In most – e.g. John Rentoul, Tony Blair, (London: Little Brown, 1995), p. 390 – the money came from Barry Cox, Peter Mandelson’s erstwhile boss at London Weekend Television (LWT). On the LWT network see Andy Beckett, ‘A world apart’, in The Guardian (Weekend), 4 September 1999. 6 John Lloyd, New […]
[…] cynical?) Guardian and Times 15 June Two part account of Data Protection Bill, Times 4 and 5 June Policing Miners National Reporting Centre – profile of its boss, Hall of Humberside. Sunday Times 20 May. It’s operations, relations with Home Office. Guardian 23 June Chief Constables and Anderton, of Greater Manchester, on miners as […]
[…] same ‘best evidence’. For Fonzi the moment of illumination was the realisation that while he thought the HSCA was engaged in investigating the assassination, the investigation’s new boss, Robert Blakey, a more sophisticated player of the bureaucratic game, actually saw his job as writing a report and delivering it on time. ‘Those people out […]
[…] or imagined calendar or appointments book – not photographs. The way the arrangement worked, visitors to the DNC would be directed to the office of Maxie Wells’ boss, Spencer Oliver. They were told that the telephone would ring, and that, when they answered it, they’d be speaking with….. (here, a photograph would be taken […]
[…] the revelations of Anatoli Golitsyn, informed MI5 that Harold Wilson, then leader of the Labour Party, was a spy. After a few enquiries Sir Roger Hollis, MI5’s boss, told John McCone, then head of the CIA, ‘There is nothing in it’. In 1964 Angleton returned to the subject and said that he had new […]
[…] march straight out to the newspapers to blow the whistle, or even to go to their union or professional association and begin proceedings against their loopy, tyrannical boss. The Thatcher/Blair duo’s greatest achievement was getting home-ownership in Britain up to around 70%. There’s nothing like having to worry about mortgage payments to reduce the […]
[…] lots of things missing. This is the list I compiled on first reading. Missing are: his failed Freedom Blue Cross venture; his role in James Goldsmith’s Now!; BOSS; James Angleton and his fantasies; his role in the disinformation put out in the early 1980s that the KGB was running world terrorism; the Israeli connection; […]
[…] the publication of a book whose contents they don’t like, the spooks rush round buying up all the copies after it has been published. Gordon Winter’s Inside BOSS is said to be an example of this. (It is certainly very hard to find second-hand, though the blizzard of writs which followed its publication may […]
[…] from Thatcher. (Guardian 8th December 1983). Simkins spent several of his declining years preparing the massive tome drawing on time expired spy documents, backed by his old boss, Sir Howard Smith, Director General of MI5 until 1982. The veto was a shock since the book was commissioned by the Cabinet Office. It may have […]
