[…] MI5/dirty pictures case from 1964…….. and it still isn’t clear to me what was going on. One of the articles the world might have survived without is ‘MI5, 1909-1945: an information management perspective’ by Black and Brunt in the Journal of Information Sciences, 26 (3) 2000. What next, the Kennedy assassination: a catering perspective? […]
[…] Cradock, Know your Enemy: How the Joint Intelligence Committee Saw the World (London: John Murray, 2002). 25 This is one reason why I was not surprised when MI5 announced the preparation of its official history – a best-seller in the making, with I assume, the profits on this occasion going to the taxpayer – […]
[…] 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. […]
[…] ‘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 […]
[PDF file]: TO CATCH A SPY How the Spycatcher Affair Brought MI5 in from the Cold Tim Tate London: Icon, h/b, £25 Robin Ramsay The publisher sent me a pre-publication proof copy of this on spec and my initial reaction was: Is there really any need to go over this old ground again? Turns out, there […]
[PDF file]: The Secret War Between the Wars MI5 in the 1920s and 1930s Kevin Quinlan Woodbridge (Suffolk): The Boydell Press, 2014, £30, h/b T his began as the author’s PhD thesis, based on the MI5 files of the interwar period, and it details some of their successes against the British left who were getting money […]
[…] In America, for example, this was reflected by Edward Epstein (one of Angleton’s most devoted followers) in his book Legend; in this country via the likes of MI5 channels like Chapman Pincher, the ‘Fourth Man’ episode, and the so-called Hollis affair. Golitsyn now has a book out, New Lies For Old (London 1984) written […]
[…] copies to various people in the media known to have been interested in the story and the handful of politicians who had been active in the Wright/ MI5 story earlier in the year. The Independent got 4 copies. We didn’t tackle the attack on Fred Holroyd because he was on holiday and out of […]
