[…] Selwood, is the only serving judge who is a member of the Armed Forces. In his evidence, the police officer in charge of the case admitted that MI5 were involved. The prosecution’s view of Green Anarchist was that it became dangerous with the issue in which agent provocateur Tim Hepple was first published. Hepple […]
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
[…] training that we know even less about is the training of foreign Special Branch and intelligence agents. Security training is arranged through the Metropolitan Special Branch and MI5. Courses are also run by the Defence Intelligence Staff at Ashford, Kent. SAVAK agents were trained in England, probably at Ashford. More sensitive training has been […]
[…] was a ‘Western intelligence official’. On 28 May 2000 the Sunday Times article ‘IRA investors make 300% profit out of Gaddafi cash donations’, sourced back to ‘ MI5 documents seen by The Sunday Times‘, concluded by telling us that Swiss police were ‘investigating the supply to Libya from Taiwan of plans and parts for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
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[…] 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 […]
[…] Blackpool Football Club but was largely unaware that he had been marked down as a dangerous enemy of the centralised British political system. According to the former MI5 officer David Shayler, the intelligence services file on Owen Oyston was re-examined in 1992 by the head of MI5, when it looked as if Neil Kinnock’s […]
