[…] 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 […]
[…] bring together a good deal of what is known about the post-war Tory Party and its links with the secret state – in this case, almost exclusively MI5 – and various disinformation and smear campaigns against Labour Party politicians and union leaders. Some of this will be familiar to anyone who has read Smear!, […]
[…] A scuffle ensued among the exclusively male gathering, as a result of which the civil servant returned to London. The Counter Intelligence branch of the Secret Service, MI5, is now believed to be running the show in Northern Ireland after the removal of MI6’s top man in Ulster, David Wyatt. Mr Wyatt, a casualty […]
[…] took over the correspondence with Fred Holroyd and Colin Wallace. A few months later I wrote the first attempt to explain Wallace’s claims in Lobster 11, ‘Wilson, MI5 and the rise of Thatcher’. This was 50 A4 pages, with an introduction by my MP, the late Kevin McNamara. He was a Catholic of Irish […]
[…] interests of British intelligence to tell ministers or officials what they knew about the inefficiency of the KGB and GRU’, remarks Urban. And vice versa, presumably. But MI5 helped smash the miners and MI6 ran Gordievsky who helped explain Gorbachev, and so MI5 and MI6 got their bids for new buildings through the system […]
[…] Branch monitor his activities. The agent, Geoff Dominy ….’ (emphasis added) Typical of Searchlight to make a startling allegation without offering any evidence. What is ‘British intelligence’? MI5? SIS? And who was Geoff Dominy? Clean aprons A correspondent wrote to MI5 asking for its position on Freemasonry. MI5 replied that the Service ‘could not […]
Organisation, History and Politics In the early years of the Thatcher decade, the radical or ‘new’ right was generally treated as though it was a united palace guard for libertarian Conservatism. More recently it has become clearer that the radical right in Britain was, at best, an ‘anti wet’ alliance between authoritarian/ nationalist and libertarian/radical […]
[…] 22 employees of the embassy to leave the country without hindrance? Hints from Ministers The then Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, was so unhappy with the performance of MI5 that he threatened a drastic reorganisation. Reliable press sources believe that the Security Service retaliated by spreading rumours about Brittan’s sex life, even producing anonymous fliers […]
[…] terror groups either to be put into the hands of a special police unit attached to the Police National Intelligence Bureau, or to be turned over to MI5 and MI6…. this proposal might astonish some of our readers. But it is clear that Special Branch’s head office in London had failed to comprehend the […]
[…] as his one of his sub-agents. When Makgill died in October 1926, the agency was reorganised under the control of Baker White – and then incorporated into MI5 in 1931. There is plenty of archival evidence to show that under both Makgill and Baker White the IIB was used to undertake work and recruit […]
