[…] group ‘led by Tony Blair’s director of communications Alastair Campbell, head of homeland security David Omand, Downing Street foreign policy adviser Sir David Manning, and representatives of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ’.(7) The process of compiling the first dossier: ‘……resulted in fairly serious rows between Campbell, Omand and Stephen Lander, then head of M15. The […]
[…] Rights, the right to respect for private and family life, home and correspondence, has been, and continues to be, violated. The agencies alleged to be involved were MI5, GCHQ and the Metropolitan Police. In January 2005 the Tribunal issued its final decision: it did not uphold Kennedy’s complaint or HRA claim, and under s67(8) […]
[…] to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a drink intended for […]
[…] Smith makes the interesting point that in her memoir Rimington does not refer to her part in Smith’s conviction for espionage and asks: ‘How many Director-Generals of MI5 have been responsible for the conviction of a major Russian spy, who was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment at the Old Bailey?’ Smith thinks Rimington is […]
[…] Robert Armstrong, one of the real pillars of this country’s secret state, is apparently in favour of more ‘open government’. Times 2 July. Another memoire, by ex MI5 Joan Miller, suppressed by the government. Sunday Times 29 July As is an article by this country’s leading (only?) academic expert on Argentina/the Falklands et al, […]
[…] capacity as Chairman. He commenced with the inimitable opening lines that ‘Some of you may now regard me as a Zionist infiltrator, others as an employee of MI5. There are no doubt some of you who do regard me as a flim-flam Tory.’ He rejected the accusations (of course), but that he was having […]
[…] three times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good […]
[…] of being evidence. The authors devote just one page to the security services, quote a couple of books, and get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not […]
[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]
[…] of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy – led, apparently by MI5 – which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone to extraordinary lengths, and spent […]
