[…] 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, […]
[…] then mainly in Europe. This isn’t overly eurocentric on Dorril’s part: his preface states that he intends to publish another volume on the roles of MI6 and MI5 with reference to counter-insurgency in the Third World. This will give more attention to South East Asia and Africa than was possible in the present volume. […]
[…] (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 […]
[…] ‘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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] community in the United Kingdon believed that unorthodox methods and techniques were required in the war. The intervention of these groupings, which included Special Branch, military intelligence, MI5 and MI6, was uncoordinated. Much has been written about that period, some of it honest journalism, but most of it (emphasis added) propaganda inspired by the […]
[…] 1964 and ’65, discussed in Smear! Roberts was sent a packet of photographs showing four men inflagrante dilecto, as they used to say. One of them was MI5 D-G Roger Hollis. The meaning of this episode has always seemed obscure. However Roberts’ obituarist, Simon Hattenstone, confidently asserts thus: ‘It did not take him long […]
Hollis again What with the opening of the KGB archives and the testimony of Oleg Gordievsky, you might be forgiven for thinking that the question, Was MI5 Director-General Roger Hollis a Soviet spy? had been answered conclusively and resoundingly ‘No’. You would be wrong – or so says the doyen of British espionage writers, […]
