[…] read yet another account of post-war British politics. I got it because in Lobster 39 (p. 21) I noted comments made by Mrs Thatcher to Robert Armstrong, MI5 liaison at the Home Office, in the mid 1970s on her ‘misgivings’ about the presence of Goodman in the Labour government. There was an MI5 file […]
[…] Police and the Parachute Regiment. In 1980 Murray became increasingly involved in investigating the activities of journalists, TV producers, MPs and former military officers. At that point MI5 expressed an interest in his range of contacts and invited him to become an asset. But after just two years he became disillusioned and resigned from […]
[…] and its effects on a range of activities: telecommunications, defence: Army, Navy, DoD, public services, financial and business, etc Intelligence David Shayler http://www.shayler.com/ Official website of former MI5 officer David Shayler and his allegations concerning MI5 malpractice; Shayler’s first statement from prison; his letters to MI5 chief Stephen Lander and to the Guardian; how […]
[…] a web of intelligence intrigue, in league with British intelligence, Mossad and probably the Salvation Army, has found his way into the arms of the very same MI5 he is always going on about. Searchlight first ran into this now very paranoid “researcher” back in 1988. Since then he has found his way into […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
