[…] 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 […]
[…] the taste and good sense to publish my Conspiracy Theories and The Rise of New Labour; and will publish a volume from Lobster contributor John Burnes on MI5 this year. So, yes, this is a shameless plug. However Nixon’s book is really rather good. Though neither a beginner’s guide nor a comprehensive summary of […]
[…] little on 1952, by inference he was working as a technical expert for the British government in the UK, and just beginning to work on secondment with MI5. According to Wright’s autobiography, and everything else that has appeared about him, this can’t be him. Wright was a boffin, one of the men in white […]
At the end of World War II, hundreds of thousands of non-German workers, mostly from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European countries, were stranded in Germany, while many thousands more were fleeing from areas overrun by Soviet forces. Most of these workers were anti-communist, anti-Soviet and anti-Russian; some had voluntarily collaborated with the Nazis, […]
[…] ‘The truth was told…. but not the whole truth of the still secret role of the CIA.’ Peter Preston, please note. In 1979 Crozier met to discuss MI5 with ‘a senior officer of MI5 who had just retired’ (probably Charles Elwell) (p. 144). Crozier is told about ‘an intellectually weakened organisation no longer prepared […]
[…] National Archives in November 2003. Included in it was a memorandum describing the security aspects of Fuchs’s background and arrest which was submitted by the Director-General of MI5, Sir Percy Sillitoe, to the Prime Minister, Clement Attlee. According to Goodman and Pincher ‘…..a careful examination reveals that MI5 deliberately misled the Prime Minister to […]
[…] started investigating the murder of his aunt, anti-nuclear activist Hilda Murrell, (11) who had incurred the unwelcome attention of Zeus Security and Sapphire Investigations (both subcontractors of MI5 and the nuclear police employing right-wing extremists and violent criminals). In my PhD thesis I also summarise the two key features of the coercive state, thus: […]
[…] over in Langley, Virginia. ‘At a critical moment, an important meeting was held between Cabinet Secretary Norman Brook, Pat Dean representing the Foreign Office, the director of MI5, Mr (later Sir) Roger Hollis, and Norman Reddaway representing the IRD. At the end of it, Brook instructed Hollis to make available to the Foreign Office, […]
[…] Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland excluded from new (minimal) rules on phone-tapping. (Irish News 16 December 1984) In the wake of the Cathy Massiter revelations about MI5 operations a temporary flood of information on activities like phone-tapping appeared. Those who have been tapped, or claim to have been tapped include: ASLEF members in […]
