[…] 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 […]
[…] as in no publication that I know of since David Miller’s Queen’s Rebels (Dublin, 1978).() While the authors are right not to accredit the 1974 strike to MI5 conspiracies, and to differentiate it from Paisley’s 1977 strike, they omit all reference to the activities of the secret state during this critical period. McDonald and […]
[…] links which existed between the secret services and the fascist groups. By examining the fortunes of fascists, such as W. E. D. Allen, and of members of MI5, including Maxwell Knight, he demonstrates a general point, that ‘MI5 colluded with British fascism in the interwar years’. Lewis examines the role of the police in […]
[…] Information-wise, it is almost useless, though there were one or two nice pictures. It was mostly bits and bobs of spy- or intelligenceish news, recycled from newspapers. MI5 lost laptops! Le Carre was a spy! ETA are bad! Star Wars hack Donald Rumsford has ‘vast political experience’ and his credibility is ‘sky high!’ FBI […]
