[…] system …. he suffered dismissal, later changed to resignation, because he spoke out against the methods being used by intelligence staff.” Holroyd says Wallace was ‘neutralised’ by MI5 because of what he knew. Did that go as far as fitting him for murder? Wallace’s precise position in Northern Ireland still isn’t clear. It was […]
[…] disclosures relating to security and intelligence matters in court (see below), and the prosecution had to be given advance notice of questions he intended to ask four MI5 witnesses, screened from the public and press. The jury were therefore unable to be told about important allegations including the involvement of MI6 in a plot […]
[…] in Claridge’s hotel was ‘permanently bugged’. He casually tells us that Oxfam and the Red Cross — and, by implication, many other organisations — were ‘checked’ by MI5 to see if they had been penetrated by the KGB. As in Spycatcher he denigrates both MI6 and the CIA, here describing a minor Middle Eastern […]
[…] of their instinctive pro-Soviet bias, which took a long time to shed. There is also an interesting account of the political manoeuvrings around Metrokhin and Norwood as MI5 and SIS tried to establish their respective spin on the story. SIS, who wanted a prosecution of Norwood (to show MI5 incompetence, I presume), gave the […]
[…] on trial. A group of Special Branch officers – assisted by the BBC – broke the Official Secrets Act in a big way on television while an MI5 officer was on trial for the same offence. The programmes were dull, perfect examples of the way television takes a couple of pages of script and […]
[…] later edition.(5) In a separate development, a former member of the Security Service seeking authorisation to publish a book detailing the successes, failures and recruitment techniques of MI5 has been told he can bring a judicial review claim in the High Court after a legal ruling rejected the argument that the Investigatory Powers Tribunal […]
[…] in the British Union of Fascists in the 1930s)? And might ‘the Chief’ have been Maxwell Knight (whose free-enterprise intelligence gathering organsiation became a semi-autonomous part of MI5 in 1931)? Or was the whole thing just a hoax designed to discredit the CP and sow the mutual suspicion in the Party’s ranks? Reply c/o […]
[…] sisters, many of whom live here and are British citizens, are deemed, without a shred of evidence, to be culpable of heinous deeds. (22) Meanwhile, SIS and MI5 launch a campaign to attract those from various ethnic groups living in Britain to sign up to Her Majesty’s secret services…..(23) Spook PR and War with […]
[…] Chamberlain, the Prime Minister. It is not clear that he did so. However, a little while later, in an unrelated episode, Wolkoff was asked by an agent MI5 had planted in the Right Club if she would send a message (the text of which had been drafted by MI5) to Germany by giving it […]
[…] biography of James Callaghan that Mrs Thatcher, while leader of the Opposition, in 1977 had twice gone to to see Robert Armstrong, then Home Office liaison with MI5, to put the beliefs of her and those around her that Harold Wilson and assorted other people in the Labour Party and trade union leadership were […]
