[…] 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 […]
[…] not just due to bizarre fantasies, and guesswork and/or wish-fulfilment masquerading as fact, there is also what appears to be the passing of disinformation on behalf of MI5 and possibly others. Where possible, I have not relied on Searchlight’s analysis. That said, it always makes for amusing (and often informative) reading. Spearhead 72, January […]
[…] Pinewood are both owned by the Property Services Agency, Whitehall’s accommodation bureau. The CTT’s valuable services are available only to serving members of Her Majesty’s forces, including MI5 and MI6, and to non-national serving soldiers. They have trained Irish, Belgian and other continental ‘special forces’. CTT instructors/talent scouts include Lucien Ott, one of the […]
[…] are prepared to go to try and maintain the single assassin theory. (4) Over at the Sunday Times — basic orientation for the past few years Army/ MI5 — on 26 January, James Adams, the Times‘ chief spook-contact for those years, now the paper’s U.S. correspondent, was trotted out. Kennedy buffs are no longer […]
[…] 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) […]
[…] SE7 1PX. (It is probably worth adding that, as with Soviet bloc embassies, all communications to the Iranian embassy are likely to be intercepted and read by MI5.) Imam is an obnoxious anti-Semitic rag, on the whole. In the February 1984 issue they even recycle the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, with this […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Tony Stephens, that Colin and I were telling the truth, and that contingency plans were made to prevent our allegations being made public. At that meeting, the MI5 legal officer, Mr Bernard ‘X’ Shelton, was advised to approach the Chief Constable of Royal Ulster Constabulary in order to stop the current investigations into my […]
[…] Green Party (two evaluating the recent census boycott campaign), a detailed expose of a regional branch of the Verfassungsschutz (Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Germany’s MI5). Using his former position as Green representative in the Baden-Wurtemberg regional parliament to prepare an in-depth account of the Verfassungsschutz, Thilo Weichert gives names, addresses, telephone […]
Searchlight At the beginning of the essay on the Blairites above, I discuss the concept of political contamination, the denigration of people on the left by association – real or fictitious – with ideas or people on the right. The most enthusiastic users of the contamination device in Britain today are found in Searchlight magazine. […]
