[…] before. As a case study in the essential duplicity and cowardice of career-minded politicians sheltering behind ‘the interests of the state’, this would be hard to better. Pity it didn’t get a more thorough proof-reading. Little errors like ‘M5 and M6’ for MI5 and MI6 shouldn’t devalue the rest of the content but they do.
[…] a long piece, over 5,000 words, on Newton’s political career, Bateman’s account (and the errors allegedly therein) and why he did not believe Newton had been an MI5 agent. Very interesting indeed. But he attached a condition: print intact, unedited, or not at all. So I sent it back. (I didn’t want to materially […]
In 1953 Dr Drank Olsen, a scientist working for the CIA, was found dead on the pavement outside a New York hotel. The Agency instituted a cover-up of the circumstances of his death. The cover-up survived until 1975 when it was revealed that Olsen had been one of many people who had been unwittingly given […]
[…] of intimidation and killing of Sinn Fein/IRA politicians, gunmen, bombers, supporters and sympathisers by the UDA, aided and abetted by British Military Intelligence, was known about by MI5, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and a few senior government ministers and civil servants (p. 160). There is no ‘smoking gun’ in the form of a document […]
[…] interesting companion piece to Jeffrey Bale’s esssay on WACL and the Moonies in Lobster 21. Anybody interested in John Hope’s essay in issue 22 on Maxwell Knight, MI5 and the British Fascisti et al, will want to get a copy of its companion piece, ‘British Fascism and the State 1917–27: a re-examination of the […]
[…] repeatedly broken into and articles left, taken or rearranged. No matter how often she changed the locks the break-ins continued. She had been to the police and MI5 – large amounts of documentation on this – with no result. She assumed she was being harassed by MOSSAD. For reasons that I now cannot recall, […]
[…] take Agee’s word against Kalugin’s. For the moment, I do too.* This alleged Agee connection with the KGB is presumably the flimsy basis of the allegation, from MI5, in the notorious ‘Gable memo’ (reprinted in Lobster 24) that Kelly was a ‘KGB man’. You can see how the smear went: Agee went to the […]
[…] Branch SB attending Friends of the Earth and NCCL meetings in Manchester. (Guardian 29 November) MI6 Interesting piece on Tony Jones, London solicitor accused of being MI6/ MI5 informant, including the information that Michael Bettaney was the source of the information, in Black Flag 27 November. Political intelligence service of Hamburg police prepare weekly […]
[…] Cabinet Office in October 2002, if you look up SIS Chief Sir Richard Dearlove in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up MI5 Chief Sir Stephen Lander (new chief not in yet) in the Index, his column ref. is ….. ‘666’. If you look up the Security Service, Secret […]
[…] had not yet achieved auteur status and was working on potboilers under a variety of pseudonyms. A chance meeting between the two comes to the attention of MI5, and Blunt is instructed to befriend Losey and monitor his activities on behalf of the American intelligence services. In doing so, he comes to admire Losey’s […]
