[…] Official Secrets Act. The book covers a number of issues relating to the Second World War. The importance of Ultra, the activities of SOE, Churchill’s attitude towards MI5, the close cooperation between the British and Irish secret services, the assassination of Admiral Darlan and the rise of the Anglo-American intelligence alliance are all covered. […]
[…] same Ken Livingstone who supported Gerry Healy and sat with Alex Mitchell and Corin Redgrave on the editorial board of Labour Herald. Livingstone made the charge that MI5 had engineered Healy’s expulsion from the WRP as recently as 1989. See for example Robert Reiner, The Politics of the Police (third edition, Oxford, Oxford University […]
[…] KGB archives. Five years ago, unimaginable. Today… today it certainly makes a striking contrast with dear, declining Britain, where MP’s may not even ask parliamentary questions about MI5 and 6. On the front cover is the legend “The KGB secrets the British government doesn’t want you to read’. I suspect that this also went […]
[…] in the “hayshed shoot-out” in November 1982. Doherty is critical of early reports of the existence of a tape-recording of the incident made by E4A using an MI5 bug, and dismisses it as a red herring. This seems unlikely considering the amount of information about the tape, and Stalker’s struggle to obtain it which […]
[…] (mostly unsourced) information about William McGrath and his strange organisation Tara. At various points Moore asserts that McGrath and Tara were being run by British intelligence – MI5, apparently – though it is never entirely clear, because Moore offers no evidence. I had a chat with Harry Irwin who compiled the Kincora bibliography in […]
[…] Right Club membership list may not even have known they were on it. The problem with this analysis is that any MP or public figure questioned by MI5 and the Special Branch in 1940 (facing potential treason charges which carried the death penalty) about their presence in Ramsay’s address book would have indicated surprise, […]
[…] account. Christie knew a couple of the AB people slightly, his circle butted onto theirs at a couple of places, and you can imagine how the SB/ MI5 mind viewed that. Just to make sure, they planted the detonators ‘found’ in his car. It appears, indeed, that, with the exception of Christie (who was […]
[…] then only just over a year since there had been several weeks of intense media interest in the revelation that the BBC actually had its own in-house MI5 office vetting BBC employees (still there, as far as I know) — prima facie evidence that, au contraire, the BBC was exactly ‘like that’ on occasions. […]
[…] the island some ten years later around the time the most recent bout of troubles began. This was Julian Faux, a then recently retired Deputy Director-General of MI5. Faux was working for a private Australian security firm and had been given the job of writing a report on Fiji’s own security service. He recommended […]
[…] two striking Yorkshire miners; an account of the crucial role of the senior administrative officer of the NUM, based on the widely-held view that Roger Windsor was MI5 agent; and a brutal portrayal of the machinations and skulduggery which characterise the black underbelly of state politics. Most of the leading actors in this drama […]
