[…] read a script for a proposed TV drama-documentary on the Wallace affair. They gave it the thumbs down and it was cancelled. See ‘BBC film on rogue MI5 man scrapped’, The Observer 12 December 1993, which stated, ‘Both are known to have reservations about Wallace’s claims of an alleged MI5 cover-up of child abuse […]
[…] of January 1982, that during the course of investigating the ‘coup’ story he and his colleagues had come across some ‘disturbing rumours’. Martin Furnival-Jones, Director General of MI5 from 1965 to 1972, told Heren that, although some of these rumours may have involved no more than ‘loose talk by gin-sodden generals’, they were taken […]
[…] the planes involved in the attacks were ‘missiles wrapped in holograms’. At this point the author puts forward a theory of his own. Could Shayler be an MI5 plant ‘designed eventually to discredit the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement with increasingly extravagant absurdities?’(30)Or could he in fact be a higher being?(31) DANGO DANGO, the database […]
[…] achievement.(1) The core of the book is the investigation of the various operations to smear the National Union of Mineworkers and Arthur Scargill. There is much about MI5, Libya and Roger Windsor. There is everything short of a smoking gun. However, Milne is also running a thesis about the strike which says: (a) the […]
[…] she expressed ‘misgivings’ about Harold Wilson’s ‘reliability’ although her evidence was wholly anecdotal, based on such matters as Wilson’s visits to Russia thirty years earlier, and his employment of figures such as Geoffrey Goodman (on whom MI5 had a file) whose political reliability she evidently questioned.’ Three meetings to express her ‘misgivings’? Don’t think so….
[…] Gough Whitlam by the CIA and SIS West Germany: the destabilisation of Willi Brandt because of his overture to ‘the other Germany’ through Ostpolitilk. The CIA and MI5 (5) suspected Brandt of being recruited by Moscow during his wartime service with the resistance in Scandinavia. Reflecting on the Pinay Circle and its apparent role […]
[…] decade after the 1991 Congress voted to dissolve the CPGB after seventy-one years of political life and to reconstitute itself as the Democratic Left, more than one MI5 officer could be heard to claim (a) that the British Security Service “had been virtually running the CPGB at the end….”, Assuming this claim about MI5 […]
[…] can be measured by the infrequency with which his name appears in print. Ross tells us that he is unsure whether or not Ball actually resigned from MI5 before going to work for the Tories, and announces that “John Ramsden, who researched this period …. considered it probable that Ball continued to work for […]
[…] Ulster Political Research Group by John MacMichael, then head of the UFF, who used it in his power struggle against Andy Tyrie. That MacMichael might have had MI5 links was revealed when he himself recycled the UCA smear, this time against Colin Wallace, to Independent journalist David McKittrick, formerly of BBC Northern Ireland. (With […]
[…] in the 1980s. And might have been such; but where is the evidence? Sir John Jones (obit Glasgow Herald 24 March 1998, Daily Telegraph 11 March 1998). MI5 officer, Director-General 1981-5. General Sir Frank King (obit Guardian 14 April 1998). GOC Northern Ireland 1973-75. The Guardian obit is by Chris Ryder, in the 1970s […]
