[…] ‘began, as early as 1943’ to divert efforts from defeating the Nazis to menacing Stalin – and his ‘greatly exaggerated’ version of wartime rivalry between SIS and MI5. The first of these claims is just wrong. What Philby actually says is that between the wars SIS was devoted mainly to the defence of Britain […]
[…] here concerns Lord Wigg, the former George Wigg MP, who, for the first couple of years of the Labour government of 1964/5, had been Wilson’s advisor on MI5 and MI6. This relationship came to grief when Wilson followed Wigg’s advice in the D-Notice Affair and came off worst in a pissing contest with MI5. […]
[…] case ‘doesn’t follow the accepted pattern of burglaries’.(16) But if it was not a bungled theft, by an admittedly very special burglar, what was the intruder’s motive? MI5, Zeus and nuclear protest Some writers believe that it was the determination of the Thatcher government to push through a highly ambitious nuclear power programme which […]
[…] date and agenda for next meeting of DPBAC; records of past meetings; related media articles and speeches. Website reflects increased openness of the D-notice system under Wilkinson. MI5 Data Protection Act Exemption Certificate http://cryptome.org/MI5-straw-gag.htm This certificate, signed by Jack Straw (then Home Secretary) on 22 July 2000, exempts MI5 from the subject access provisions […]
[…] ‘Squidgygate’ then became impatient with their proxies and started sending journalists taped copies of the conversation through the post. Naturally, once the story broke, suspicion fell on MI5. Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke told the House of Commons: ‘The security services are strictly controlled in their telephone tapping and I know of no evidence whatever […]
[…] Affairs Research Institute (FARI). John Bruce Lockhart (Obituary, Independent 13 May 1995). SIS officer. Niall MacDermot (Obituary by David Leigh in the Guardian, 26 February 1996). War-time MI5 officer, later Labour MP and Minister in the first Wilson government, whose career was halted by MI5 ostensibly because of his wife’s links with Soviet officials, […]
[…] (HEE Proceedings, vol. 132, Pt. 1, No. 4, July 1989). Viscount Ruthven: Section D (MI6) Cairo with Freya Stark (Sunday Telegraph 5 August 1990). Commander Bill Emmet: MI5 Italy WW2 (Daily Telegraph 2 November 1985). G.J. Deverell: MI6 station chief Budapest 1941 (Letter, The Times, 22 April 1991). Douglas Gordon: British Consul-General Aden, expelled […]
[…] interesting – but isolated – anecdotes is not enough. For example, he flatly asserts that “the ACMA’s (Authorised Competent Military Authorities) were both conduit and catspaw of MI5”, but gives only one example. (Do we even know how big MI5 was at this point?) Part of this national surveillance effort was done by “an […]
[…] no-one chose them. That is why the FCO can produce specialists in the area. Secondly the ‘stans’, by which I mean principally Pakistan, used to come under MI5 (sometimes army officers seconded from the MOD) and the colonial office, which is again why SIS neglected things. Afghanistan was of interest because of India/Iran/Soviet Union […]
[…] having been an informer in Bristol since the mid-seventies – which some of us had guessed – and after 1989 his handling had been taken over by MI5. Apparently he then returned to Belfast under instructions and then moved to Galway, where he again was running a driving school. When he took over an […]
