[…] 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 […]
[…] Miller, the former UDA intelligence officer who emerged earlier this year in the Sunday Times (22 and 29 March 1987) to reveal that he had been an MI5 agent inside the UDA. When he first contacted the Sunday Times it was the Ron Horn/UCA story he was most keen they should print. A third […]
[…] He refers to MI5’s analysis of the “45 minute report” and highlights the original circulation of the document to various departments. The usual suspects are there: SIS, MI5, GCHQ and MOD get between 7 copies for MI5 and 20 copies for MI6. But also listed are 32 (yes 32) copies for the DTI. Why? […]
[…] December 1984, p. 8. Document claims RUC, Army knew all about Kincora in 1974 — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 25 June 1985, p. 7. MI5 knew about assault allegations, Kincora cover-up part of intelligence plot — Ed Moloney and Andy Pollak, Irish Times, 26 June 1985, p. 16. The queer card […]
[…] that he is Australia’s leading academic historian of intelligence and security history. This history of ASIO and its antecedents – more or less equivalent to the UK’s MI5 – shows what you might have expected: the spooks were allied with the conservatives, persecuted the left, hunted reds, real and imaginary (mostly imaginary) and kowtowed […]
[…] movement – the Trades Union Congress. If you lived through the late 1960s and 1970s and believed much of the British media (which was being fed by MI5), the British union movement, led by those evil men of the left, Jack Jones and Hugh Scanlon, was on the verge of a communist take- over […]
[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 […]
[…] Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. Yorkshire Post, 18 February 1986. Organisers Bulletin, January 1986, p. 3. On the subject of photographs, a better way of Special Branch/ MI5 ascertaining just exactly what every key NF activist (as opposed to paper member) looked like could hardly have been devised. It really speaks of extraordinary incompetence […]
[…] in Curzon Street’s Leconsfield House failed to give him the pension they promised, the 20-year pension he had earned with the Admiralty but lost when he joined MI5. If he had been one of those scores of titled gentlemen who work for British Intelligence, whether on staff or freelance, you can be sure he […]
