[…] following up 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] just be a notepaper job. Nonetheless, some of the ‘advisory body’ were people with rather specialised interests. For example, at one point the name of General Leslie Hollis appeared on it. Hollis had been the Secretary of the Chiefs of Staff committee which ‘ . . . considered, with Sir Stewart Menzies, the head […]
[PDF file]: […] been considered.) Wright had been appointed to a committee which investigated the putative Soviet ‘moles’ and he came to believe that the ‘mole’ was MI5 chief Roger Hollis. He did his best to get the system to deal with this, was rebuffed and retired to Australia. There he continued trying to get serious attention […]
[PDF file]: […] Leigh (Observer 15 September 1985) has hinted that among those involved was Peter Wright, one of the leading figures in the campaign against former MI5 head Roger Hollis. Wright is obviously one of Pincher’s major sources for his last two or three books. Who else is in this group of MI5/ex MI5 who organised […]
[PDF file]: […] an entry in Oswald’s address book about the far right. 1 Oswald wrote: NAT. SEC. DAN BURROS LINCOLN ROCKWELL ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA AMERICAN NAZI PARTY (AMER. NATIONAL PARTY) Hollis sec. of Queens N.Y. (NEWSPAPER) NAT. Socialist Bulletin. Frewin cites an appendix in my book Dreamer of the Day showing that Oswald clearly derived his information […]
[PDF file]: […] of Theatre Workshop’. As for MacColl, in the 1930s, Special Branch seem to regard him as a serious threat; but MI5 were much more relaxed, with Roger Hollis recommending that he could be ‘left to his plays’. What of Koestler and Orwell? An MI5 officer assessed Koestler as ‘one third genius, one third blackguard […]
[PDF file]: […] radio programmes: Tom Mangold’s Ship of Spies broadcast on the BBC World Service in February 2011 and Andrew Marr’s Start the week discussion with Gordon Corera, Rosemary Hollis, Frank Ledwidge and Rory Stewart MP in October 2011. The latter was a ‘safe-hands’ controlled explosion if ever there was one, presumably in preparation for swingeing […]
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[PDF file]: […] the Cold War that I am aware of has mostly been confirmation of what we knew already: the Soviets were apparently not running Alger Hiss or Roger Hollis; but they were funding the World Peace Council and the rest of the well known fronts. The only important news so far has been the confirmation […]
